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Antonio Porchia: One lives in...

Antonio Porchia: One lives in...

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: I would rather...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: I would rather...

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could...

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Hosea Ballou: Real happiness is...

Hosea Ballou: Real happiness is...

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Source:...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Religion is something...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Religion is something...

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Woman was God's...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Woman was God's...

Woman was God's 'second' mistake.

Source: 'The Antichrist'
-- Friedrich...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Of all that...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Of all that...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A character is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A character is...

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; -- read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A beautiful woman...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A beautiful woman...

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A foolish consistency...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A foolish consistency...

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With...

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Georg Hegel: No man is...

Georg Hegel: No man is...

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a...

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Gaston Bachelard: So, like a...

Gaston Bachelard: So, like a...

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Source:...

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Gaston Bachelard: Reverie is not...

Gaston Bachelard: Reverie is not...

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the...

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Gaston Bachelard: The words of...

Gaston Bachelard: The words of...

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Source: The Poetics of Reverie, ch....

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T E Lawrence: The literature of...

T E Lawrence: The literature of...

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: The height of...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: The height of...

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

Source: Sentences et Maximes...

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Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Silences have a...

Elizabeth Bowen: Silences have a...

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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Annie Dillard: I startled a...

Annie Dillard: I startled a...

I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the...

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Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the...

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Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same...

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