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Jean Anouilh: Nothing is irreparable...

Jean Anouilh: Nothing is irreparable...

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Source: Warwick, in The Lark, pt. 1.
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J B Priestley: There are plenty...

J B Priestley: There are plenty...

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

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J B Priestley: Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people...

J B Priestley: Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people...

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about...

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Eugene Ionesco: Beauty is a...

Eugene Ionesco: Beauty is a...

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of...

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Eugene Ionesco: The universe seems...

Eugene Ionesco: The universe seems...

The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish...

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Eugene Ionesco: Shakespeare was the...

Eugene Ionesco: Shakespeare was the...

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

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Eugene Ionesco: An avant-garde man...

Eugene Ionesco: An avant-garde man...

An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any...

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William Wordsworth: A reasoning, self-sufficing...

William Wordsworth: A reasoning, self-sufficing...

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,
An intellectual all-in-all.


Source: A Poet's...

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William Wordsworth: And I could...

William Wordsworth: And I could...

And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

Source: 'My...

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William Wordsworth: The holy time...

William Wordsworth: The holy time...

The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration.


Source: Miscellaneous...

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William Wordsworth: Thou hast great...

William Wordsworth: Thou hast great...

Thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable...

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William Wordsworth: As a huge...

William Wordsworth: As a huge...

As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie
Couched on the bald top of an eminence.


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William Wordsworth: Action is transitory...

William Wordsworth: Action is transitory...

Action is transitory - a step, a blow.
The motion of a muscle - this way or that -
'Tis done, and in the...

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William Wordsworth: Enough, if something...

William Wordsworth: Enough, if something...

Enough, if something from our hands have power
To live, and act, and serve the future hour;
And if, as toward...

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William Wordsworth: Behold her, single...

William Wordsworth: Behold her, single...

Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland lass!


Source: The...

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William Wordsworth: Will no one...

William Wordsworth: Will no one...

Will no one tell me what she sings?-
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things
And...

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William Wordsworth: When from our...

William Wordsworth: When from our...

When from our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop,
Sick of its business,...

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Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Fame is a bee
It has a song --
It has a sting --
Ah, too, it has a wing.


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Emily Dickinson: Finite to fail,...

Emily Dickinson: Finite to fail,...

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Stanislaw Lec: I prefer the...

Stanislaw Lec: I prefer the...

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.

Source: In 20,000...

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