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Primo Levi: The aims of...

Primo Levi: The aims of...

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Source: The Drowned and the...

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John Ciardi: What has any...

John Ciardi: What has any...

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it...

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Maybe I'm lucky...

Maybe I'm lucky...

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be Going in the wrong direction.

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A child learns...

A child learns...

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

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Primo Levi: The butterfly's attractiveness...

Primo Levi: The butterfly's attractiveness...

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would...

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Jean Racine: I loved you...

Jean Racine: I loved you...

I loved you when you were inconstant. What should I have done if you had been faithful? (Je t'aimais inconstant,...

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Education is a...

Education is a...

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not...

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Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a...

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John Selden: They that govern...

John Selden: They that govern...

They that govern the most, make least noise.

Source: Table Talk.
-- John Selden,...

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A weak man...

A weak man...

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Source:...

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Diane Arbus: Most people go...

Diane Arbus: Most people go...

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their...

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John Selden: Humility is a...

John Selden: Humility is a...

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good...

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Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...

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Stephen Hawking: If we find...

Stephen Hawking: If we find...

If we find the answer [the unified theory], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for we would know the...

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Diane Arbus: I really believe...

Diane Arbus: I really believe...

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

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Robert Bolt: It profits a...

Robert Bolt: It profits a...

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!

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What the American...

What the American...

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

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An idealist is...

An idealist is...

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more...

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Artists have a...

Artists have a...

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

Source: Photograph...

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Adults who [hang]...

Adults who [hang]...

Adults who [hang] gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life...

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