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Jean-Paul Sartre: All human actions...

Jean-Paul Sartre: All human actions...

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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Jean-Paul Sartre: The more sand...

Jean-Paul Sartre: The more sand...

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

God, I can push the grass apart
And lay my finger on Thy heart!


Source: In The...

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Sara Teasdale: When I can...

Sara Teasdale: When I can...

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And...

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Nikki Giovanni: A white face...

Nikki Giovanni: A white face...

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will...

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Robert Louis Stevenson: Our business in...

Robert Louis Stevenson: Our business in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the...

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Louise Erdrich: They were so...

Louise Erdrich: They were so...

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were;...

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Titus Maccius Plautus: If you are...

Titus Maccius Plautus: If you are...

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Source: The Little Foxes, 1939.
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Lillian Hellman: Nothing you write,...

Lillian Hellman: Nothing you write,...

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

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Dodie Smith: I have found...

Dodie Smith: I have found...

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

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Euripides: Cleverness is not...

Euripides: Cleverness is not...

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,...

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Euripides: Among mortals second...

Euripides: Among mortals second...

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Arthur Miller: The apple cannot...

Arthur Miller: The apple cannot...

The apple cannot be stuck back on The Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek...

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Terence: The nature of...

Terence: The nature of...

The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their...

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Terence: How often events,...

Terence: How often events,...

How often events, by chance, and quite unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope...

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Marsha Norman: People do think...

Marsha Norman: People do think...

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear...

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Thomas Middleton: A little too...

Thomas Middleton: A little too...

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

Source: Phoenix, act 1, sc....

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Pierre de Beaumarchais: It is not...

Pierre de Beaumarchais: It is not...

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Source: In...

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