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Giambattista Vico: Men first feel...

Giambattista Vico: Men first feel...

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure,...

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Gaston Bachelard: Man is an...

Gaston Bachelard: Man is an...

Man is an imagining being.

Source: The Poetics of Reverie, ch. 2, sct. 10 (1960;...

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Thomas ? Kempis: Trust not thy...

Thomas ? Kempis: Trust not thy...

Trust not thy feeling, for whatever it be now, it will quickly be changed.

Source:...

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Thomas ? Kempis: Activate yourself to...

Thomas ? Kempis: Activate yourself to...

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to...

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Francis J Grimke: . . ....

Francis J Grimke: . . ....

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it...

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Stendhal: It is the...

Stendhal: It is the...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from...

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Thomas Wolfe: A young man...

Thomas Wolfe: A young man...

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Attacking is the...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Attacking is the...

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it...

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Peter Abrahams: To get where...

Peter Abrahams: To get where...

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.

Source: Tell Freedom,...

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Elie Wiesel: The books I...

Elie Wiesel: The books I...

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples....

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Knut Hamsun: The writer must...

Knut Hamsun: The writer must...

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: A great idea...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: A great idea...

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas...

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Amy Tan: I did not...

Amy Tan: I did not...

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on...

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Paul Theroux: I should have...

Paul Theroux: I should have...

I should have worked just long enough to discover that I didn't like it.

Source: In...

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Romain Rolland: Every man, every...

Romain Rolland: Every man, every...

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies.

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Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely...

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Anthony Hope: I wish you...

Anthony Hope: I wish you...

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

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George Meredith: Sentimentalists are they...

George Meredith: Sentimentalists are they...

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing...

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George Ade: After being turned...

George Ade: After being turned...

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.

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Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Youth is a mortal wound

Source: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.
-- Katherine Paterson,...

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