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Margaret Atwood: The truly fearless...

Margaret Atwood: The truly fearless...

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg,...

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Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Source: In...

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Kingsley Amis: He was of...

Kingsley Amis: He was of...

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was...

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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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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Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.


Source: Expect Nothing, Revolutionary...

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Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

A young man's ambition [is] to get along in the world and make a place for himself half your life goes that way, till...

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Ivan Turgenev: If we wait...

Ivan Turgenev: If we wait...

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never...

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Epictetus: The greater the...

Epictetus: The greater the...

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and...

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Immanuel Kant: I had to...

Immanuel Kant: I had to...

I had to set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.

Source: In The...

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Jose Ortega y Gasset: The metaphor is...

Jose Ortega y Gasset: The metaphor is...

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

Source: The...

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Manly Hall: Words are potent...

Manly Hall: Words are potent...

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Emile Chartier: We prove what...

Emile Chartier: We prove what...

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

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Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and...

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Emile M Cioran: Consciousness is much...

Emile M Cioran: Consciousness is much...

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Source:...

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Charles Peguy: Any father whose...

Charles Peguy: Any father whose...

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against...

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Charles Peguy: Everything begins in...

Charles Peguy: Everything begins in...

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness...

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: We all want...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: We all want...

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to 'be' something we are no longer...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: He who despises...

Friedrich Nietzsche: He who despises...

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Source: In...

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