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Luigi Pirandello: Whatever is a...

Luigi Pirandello: Whatever is a...

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be --...

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Luigi Pirandello: We ride through...

Luigi Pirandello: We ride through...

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

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J August Strindberg: Antipathy, dissimilarity of...

J August Strindberg: Antipathy, dissimilarity of...

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

Source:...

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J August Strindberg: Silence hides nothing....

J August Strindberg: Silence hides nothing....

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

Source: 'Ghost Sonata'
-- J August...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: Don't take the...

Ethel Watts Mumford: Don't take the...

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed!

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Colley Cibber: As good be...

Colley Cibber: As good be...

As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: To name something...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: To name something...

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Source: In...

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Robert Bolt: The nobility of...

Robert Bolt: The nobility of...

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

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Robert Bolt: The law is...

Robert Bolt: The law is...

The law is not a light for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway...

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Alexander Pope: Nature, and Nature's...

Alexander Pope: Nature, and Nature's...

Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Words, like nature,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Words, like nature,...

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Source: In The...

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Emily Dickinson: The brain is...

Emily Dickinson: The brain is...

The brain is wider than the sky;
For put them side by side
The one the other will contain with ease -
And you...

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Robert Bly: When a father,...

Robert Bly: When a father,...

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his...

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Christina Rossetti: So now in...

Christina Rossetti: So now in...

So now in patience I possess
My soul year after tedious year,
Content to take the lowest place
The place...

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Edmund Spenser: It is the...

Edmund Spenser: It is the...

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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Martin Tupper: To be accurate,...

Martin Tupper: To be accurate,...

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write.

Source:...

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Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

[T]he man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are...

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Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the...

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May Swenson: I was the...

May Swenson: I was the...

I was the horse and the rider . . .

Source: The Centaur, Sts. I & 2, To Mix with...

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Novalis: The artist belongs...

Novalis: The artist belongs...

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Source: In The...

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