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Oscar Wilde: How else but...

Oscar Wilde: How else but...

How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?


Source: The Ballad...

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Christopher Fry: I know your...

Christopher Fry: I know your...

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart
Of all right causes is a cause that cannot...

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David Mamet: We respond to...

David Mamet: We respond to...

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.

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Alan Bennett: Were we closer...

Alan Bennett: Were we closer...

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Source:...

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca: A good action...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca: A good action...

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

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William Wycherley: Thy books should,...

William Wycherley: Thy books should,...

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be,
Yet such wherein men may thy judgment...

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Joseph Brodsky: After all, it...

Joseph Brodsky: After all, it...

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had...

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Robert Browning: What's a man's...

Robert Browning: What's a man's...

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all;
Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to...

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Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.


Source: 1875;...

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G C Lichtenberg: If another Messiah...

G C Lichtenberg: If another Messiah...

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

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G C Lichtenberg: Reason now gazes...

G C Lichtenberg: Reason now gazes...

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold...

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G C Lichtenberg: Nothing can contribute...

G C Lichtenberg: Nothing can contribute...

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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Benjamin Franklin: If you would...

Benjamin Franklin: If you would...

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth...

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Man Ray: An original is...

Man Ray: An original is...

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an original is motivated be necessity. . . It is...

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John Berger: The human imagination....

John Berger: The human imagination....

The human imagination. . . has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or...

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John Berger: You can plan...

John Berger: You can plan...

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

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Benjamin Haydon: There surely is...

Benjamin Haydon: There surely is...

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the...

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Gordon Parks: Nothing came easy....

Gordon Parks: Nothing came easy....

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every toolshop of my mind, and with long searching and hard...

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Henry Moore: I find in...

Henry Moore: I find in...

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . ....

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Louise Nevelson: I see no...

Louise Nevelson: I see no...

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

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