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Clive Barker: The threads can...

Clive Barker: The threads can...

The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the...

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Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Source: In The...

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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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Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

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Sinclair Lewis: Don't be a...

Sinclair Lewis: Don't be a...

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

Source:...

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Emile M Cioran: No one can...

Emile M Cioran: No one can...

No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.

Source: In The...

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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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Friedrich Nietzsche: The true man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The true man...

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous...

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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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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: Nature is not...

Ivan Turgenev: Nature is not...

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Source:...

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Edward Everett Hale: Never bear more...

Edward Everett Hale: Never bear more...

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had,...

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Edward Everett Hale: The making of...

Edward Everett Hale: The making of...

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: A consistent thinker...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: A consistent thinker...

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Is man one...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Is man one...

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Source: In The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The exuberant fertility...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The exuberant fertility...

The exuberant fertility of the universal will.

Source: The Birth of Tragedy, ch. 17...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The Germans --...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Germans --...

The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Oh, how much...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Oh, how much...

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

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Stanislaw Lec: Never lie when...

Stanislaw Lec: Never lie when...

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Stanislaw Lec: The man who...

Stanislaw Lec: The man who...

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

Source: In...

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