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Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet...

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Hermann Hesse: There's no reality...

Hermann Hesse: There's no reality...

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images...

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Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Source: Face Toward the...

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Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Source:...

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Mario Puzo: He was. ....

Mario Puzo: He was. ....

He was. . . a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war...

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Charles Morgan: If Moses had...

Charles Morgan: If Moses had...

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written The Ten...

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Brian Moore: In fact, one...

Brian Moore: In fact, one...

In fact, one thing that I have noticed. . . is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being...

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Sloan Wilson: It's not a...

Sloan Wilson: It's not a...

It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start building with...

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Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to...

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James Allen: Above all be...

James Allen: Above all be...

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to...

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Jean Paul: The timid are...

Jean Paul: The timid are...

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after...

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Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed...

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Georges Bernanos: It is the...

Georges Bernanos: It is the...

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

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Georges Bernanos: The most dangerous...

Georges Bernanos: The most dangerous...

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

Source: In The...

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Richard C Trench: As shadows attend...

Richard C Trench: As shadows attend...

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Robert South: Wonder is from...

Robert South: Wonder is from...

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Source: In The...

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Diogenes: As a matter...

Diogenes: As a matter...

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the...

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Georg Hegel: An idea is...

Georg Hegel: An idea is...

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to...

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Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he...

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Chuang-tzu: He who pursues...

Chuang-tzu: He who pursues...

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Source: In...

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