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George Eliot: Any coward can...

George Eliot: Any coward can...

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...

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George Eliot: If we use...

George Eliot: If we use...

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a...

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George Eliot: An ass may...

George Eliot: An ass may...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Source: Romola, ch....

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of it attractiveness.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that...

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Jane Austen: Friendship is the...

Jane Austen: Friendship is the...

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Source: In An...

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Jane Austen: It is always...

Jane Austen: It is always...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of...

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Jane Austen: I am afraid...

Jane Austen: I am afraid...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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Jane Austen: Nobody can tell...

Jane Austen: Nobody can tell...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never...

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Jane Austen: In nine cases...

Jane Austen: In nine cases...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

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Jane Austen: She was a...

Jane Austen: She was a...

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

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Jane Austen: The pleasantness of...

Jane Austen: The pleasantness of...

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...

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E M Forster: Only connect the...

E M Forster: Only connect the...

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has...

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J G Ballard: A car crash...

J G Ballard: A car crash...

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinaesthetic factors, the stylizing of...

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J G Ballard: The American Dream...

J G Ballard: The American Dream...

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its...

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Marquis de Sade: Are wars. ....

Marquis de Sade: Are wars. ....

Are wars. . . anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is...

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Marquis de Sade: It is only...

Marquis de Sade: It is only...

It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that...

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Graham Henry Greene: My two fingers...

Graham Henry Greene: My two fingers...

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course....

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