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Christiaan Barnard: Suffering isn't ennobling,...

Christiaan Barnard: Suffering isn't ennobling,...

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Source: In NY Times, 28 Apr 1985.
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August Bier: A smart mother...

August Bier: A smart mother...

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

Source: In...

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Theodore Isaac Rubin: The problem is...

Theodore Isaac Rubin: The problem is...

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a...

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Winston Churchill: I cannot forecast...

Winston Churchill: I cannot forecast...

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there...

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Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit...

Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit...

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Source: In Christian Science...

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Herman Wouk: We are in...

Herman Wouk: We are in...

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama...

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Norman Douglas: A man can...

Norman Douglas: A man can...

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, an yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful...

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Gloria Naylor: I don't believe...

Gloria Naylor: I don't believe...

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed...

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Eden Phillpotts: You never know...

Eden Phillpotts: You never know...

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Source: In...

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Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.


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John Sterling: Pain has its...

John Sterling: Pain has its...

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant...

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Malcolm Bradbury: Reading someone else's...

Malcolm Bradbury: Reading someone else's...

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right...

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Malcolm Bradbury: You Liberals think...

Malcolm Bradbury: You Liberals think...

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

Source: After...

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Aldous Huxley: Most of one's...

Aldous Huxley: Most of one's...

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Source: Mr....

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Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...

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Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

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Graham Henry Greene: Innocence is like...

Graham Henry Greene: Innocence is like...

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no...

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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: You only have...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: You only have...

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of...

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George MacDonald: No man ever...

George MacDonald: No man ever...

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the...

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