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Emile M Cioran: To want fame...

Emile M Cioran: To want fame...

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Source: The New Gods, ...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Knowledge is the...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Knowledge is the...

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Source: My Last Will and Testament, in...

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A A Milne: If the English...

A A Milne: If the English...

If the English language had been properly organized . . . then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she',...

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Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a...

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Michael Crichton: If true computer...

Michael Crichton: If true computer...

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

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Marquis de Sade: Every principle is...

Marquis de Sade: Every principle is...

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the...

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Shirley Jackson: It has long...

Shirley Jackson: It has long...

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears...

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Andre Malraux: Be careful, --...

Andre Malraux: Be careful, --...

Be careful, -- with quotations you can damn anything.

Source: Anti-censorship...

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Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Source: The Middle Ground,...

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Aldous Huxley: Experience is not...

Aldous Huxley: Experience is not...

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

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Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Source: In...

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Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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Kingsley Amis: Death has got...

Kingsley Amis: Death has got...

Death has got something to be said for it:
There's no need to get out of bed for it;
Wherever you may...

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Agatha Christie: I like living....

Agatha Christie: I like living....

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...

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Charles Simmons: It is a...

Charles Simmons: It is a...

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided...

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Alice Walker: People tend to...

Alice Walker: People tend to...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: It's raining my...

Guillaume Apollinaire: It's raining my...

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Source: La Nuit...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: Memories are hunting...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Memories are hunting...

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

Source: Cors de...

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Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: What you are...

Lois McMaster Bujold: What you are...

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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