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Robert Graves: Love is a...

Robert Graves: Love is a...

Love is a universal migraine
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.


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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Justice. . ....

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Justice. . ....

Justice. . . limps along, but it gets there all the same.

Source: Guardiola, in In...

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Anne Tyler: My family can...

Anne Tyler: My family can...

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

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Lao-Tzu: Govern a great...

Lao-Tzu: Govern a great...

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Source:...

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Mencius: Men must be...

Mencius: Men must be...

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to...

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Democritus: Nothing exists except...

Democritus: Nothing exists except...

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space: everything else is opinion.

Source: In...

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Gaston Bachelard: Childhood lasts all...

Gaston Bachelard: Childhood lasts all...

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life. . . . Poets will help us to...

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Otto Weininger: The genius which...

Otto Weininger: The genius which...

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Source: Sex and...

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Otto Weininger: Fate determines many...

Otto Weininger: Fate determines many...

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Source: In Webster's...

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Karl Popper: Good tests kill...

Karl Popper: Good tests kill...

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Source: In The...

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Henry Ward Beecher: The head learns...

Henry Ward Beecher: The head learns...

The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.

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Epicurus: It is possible...

Epicurus: It is possible...

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city...

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Ernest Renan: He whom God...

Ernest Renan: He whom God...

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by...

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Raoul Vaneigem: People without imagination...

Raoul Vaneigem: People without imagination...

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all...

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Doug Horton: Born a saint,...

Doug Horton: Born a saint,...

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Merton: A daydream is...

Thomas Merton: A daydream is...

A daydream is an evasion.

Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Doubleday...

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Thomas Merton: The least work...

Thomas Merton: The least work...

The least work of learning is done in the classroom.

Source: In Webster's...

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Thomas Merton: October is a...

Thomas Merton: October is a...

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college,...

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Thomas ? Kempis: The reflections on...

Thomas ? Kempis: The reflections on...

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand...

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Thomas ? Kempis: Wherever you go,...

Thomas ? Kempis: Wherever you go,...

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find...

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