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Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps...

Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps...

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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George Eliot: The only failure...

George Eliot: The only failure...

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The line separating...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The line separating...

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either -- but right through...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A man is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A man is...

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Source:...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Source: Speech, 1972.
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Jane Austen: An egg boiled...

Jane Austen: An egg boiled...

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

Source: (Mr Woodhouse) Emma, Ch....

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Jane Austen: A man ....

Jane Austen: A man ....

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter...

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Jane Austen: I am afraid...

Jane Austen: I am afraid...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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Jane Austen: Where so many...

Jane Austen: Where so many...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be...

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Richard Bach: Can miles truly...

Richard Bach: Can miles truly...

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already...

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Richard Bach: Jonathan is that...

Richard Bach: Jonathan is that...

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach...

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P G Wodehouse: I just sit...

P G Wodehouse: I just sit...

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Source: In Collier's, 31 Aug 1956;...

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Jean Paul: No one is...

Jean Paul: No one is...

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Jean Paul: The more sand...

Jean Paul: The more sand...

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through...

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E M Forster: Creative writers are...

E M Forster: Creative writers are...

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

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E M Forster: Yes, oh dear,...

E M Forster: Yes, oh dear,...

Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.

Source: Aspects of the Novel,...

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E M Forster: I distrust Great...

E M Forster: I distrust Great...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel...

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John Steinbeck: I am impelled,...

John Steinbeck: I am impelled,...

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my...

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John Steinbeck: I hold that...

John Steinbeck: I hold that...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any...

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