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Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Gardening is not a rational act.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986
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Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Source: National Public Radio Interview/...

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Thomas Mann: An art whose...

Thomas Mann: An art whose...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a...

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Thomas Mann: Order and simplification...

Thomas Mann: Order and simplification...

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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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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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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Kingsley Amis: Self criticism must...

Kingsley Amis: Self criticism must...

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue,...

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Robert Penn Warren: I think the...

Robert Penn Warren: I think the...

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or...

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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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Plutarch: Rest is the...

Plutarch: Rest is the...

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Source: In The Book of Success, ed. Richard Shea,...

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Emile M Cioran: A sensation must...

Emile M Cioran: A sensation must...

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

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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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Emile M Cioran: The history of...

Emile M Cioran: The history of...

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Source: In...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: One has to...

Friedrich Nietzsche: One has to...

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The anarchist and...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The anarchist and...

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Source: The Antichrist, aph....

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A friend is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A friend is...

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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John Mason Neale: Christian! dost thou...

John Mason Neale: Christian! dost thou...

Christian! dost thou see them
On the holy ground,
How the troops of Midian
Prowl and prowl...

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Epictetus: What concerns me...

Epictetus: What concerns me...

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

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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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