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Friedrich Nietzsche: The strongest knowledge...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The strongest knowledge...

The strongest knowledge (that of the total unfreedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: It is always...

Friedrich Nietzsche: It is always...

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Man... cannot learn...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Man... cannot learn...

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: For art to...

Friedrich Nietzsche: For art to...

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Extreme positions are...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Extreme positions are...

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

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William Wycherley: Marrying to increase...

William Wycherley: Marrying to increase...

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had...

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Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei...

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George Gordon Byron: This is the...

George Gordon Byron: This is the...

This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and saving souls,
All propagated with the best of...

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George Gordon Byron: My great comfort...

George Gordon Byron: My great comfort...

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all...

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Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then -- it knocks at Will --
That is the manufacturing...

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Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.


Source: c.1864,...

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Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.


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Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Business? it's quite simple: it's other people's money.

Source: Giraud, in La...

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Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Children see things very well sometimes -- and idealists even better.

Source: In...

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Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

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Samuel Beckett: I have my...

Samuel Beckett: I have my...

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Source: The...

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Harriet Monroe: Great ages of...

Harriet Monroe: Great ages of...

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . ....

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Douglas Jerrold: Sir, you are...

Douglas Jerrold: Sir, you are...

Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.

Source: Speaking...

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Nicolas Chamfort: People are governed...

Nicolas Chamfort: People are governed...

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Source:...

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Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time...

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