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Milan Kundera: The serial number...

Milan Kundera: The serial number...

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It...

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Milan Kundera: For a novelist,...

Milan Kundera: For a novelist,...

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question:...

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Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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Aldous Huxley: The investigation of...

Aldous Huxley: The investigation of...

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the...

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Edward Dahlberg: Man hoards himself...

Edward Dahlberg: Man hoards himself...

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Source: Reasons of the Heart, ...

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Charles Dickens: Look here. Upon...

Charles Dickens: Look here. Upon...

Look here. Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know.

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Charles Dickens: What a world...

Charles Dickens: What a world...

What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!

Source: (Miss Mowcher)...

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Charles Dickens: My life is...

Charles Dickens: My life is...

My life is one demd horrid grind!

Source: (Mr Mantalini) Nicholas Nickleby, Ch. ...

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Charles Dickens: We've got a...

Charles Dickens: We've got a...

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's...

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Charles Dickens: A Being, erect...

Charles Dickens: A Being, erect...

A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a...

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Henry David Thoreau: I have found...

Henry David Thoreau: I have found...

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and...

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Henry David Thoreau: Books must be...

Henry David Thoreau: Books must be...

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Source: In...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: I am not...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: I am not...

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Source:...

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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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Henry David Thoreau: Our moments of...

Henry David Thoreau: Our moments of...

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have...

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Henry David Thoreau: The greatest compliment...

Henry David Thoreau: The greatest compliment...

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my...

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Henry David Thoreau: We should come...

Henry David Thoreau: We should come...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and...

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Henry David Thoreau: Whether the flower...

Henry David Thoreau: Whether the flower...

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it!...

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Honore de Balzac: The glory of...

Honore de Balzac: The glory of...

The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: The temptation to...

Arthur Conan Doyle: The temptation to...

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our...

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