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George Eliot: You may try...

George Eliot: You may try...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of...

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George Eliot: When death, the...

George Eliot: When death, the...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...

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George Eliot: My own experience...

George Eliot: My own experience...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The salvation of...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The salvation of...

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Source:...

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Thomas Wolfe: We are always...

Thomas Wolfe: We are always...

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're...

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Jane Austen: There is nothing...

Jane Austen: There is nothing...

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Source: In The Harper Book...

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Jane Austen: A large income...

Jane Austen: A large income...

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Source: In The...

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Jane Austen: I do not...

Jane Austen: I do not...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...

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Douglas Adams: He felt that...

Douglas Adams: He felt that...

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were...

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Marguerite Duras: No other human...

Marguerite Duras: No other human...

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the...

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Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

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Milan Kundera: Without the meditative...

Milan Kundera: Without the meditative...

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, ahistorical accidents, soon...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with...

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J G Ballard: Hell is out...

J G Ballard: Hell is out...

Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private...

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John Steinbeck: I know this...

John Steinbeck: I know this...

I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.

Source: The Grapes of...

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Louisa May Alcott: You have a...

Louisa May Alcott: You have a...

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest...

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John Fowles: Our accepting what...

John Fowles: Our accepting what...

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

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Marquis de Sade: All, all is...

Marquis de Sade: All, all is...

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of...

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Marquis de Sade: They declaim against...

Marquis de Sade: They declaim against...

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its...

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Graham Henry Greene: He entered the...

Graham Henry Greene: He entered the...

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Source: The Heart...

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