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Ernest Hemingway: The man who...

Ernest Hemingway: The man who...

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

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Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's...

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Salman Rushdie: I hate admitting...

Salman Rushdie: I hate admitting...

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Source: Hamza, in The Satanic...

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Joseph Heller: He had decided...

Joseph Heller: He had decided...

He had decided to live for ever or die in the attempt.

Source: Catch-22, ch. 3...

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Joseph Heller: He was a...

Joseph Heller: He was a...

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Source: Catch-22,...

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Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie...

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John LeCarre: The monsters of...

John LeCarre: The monsters of...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,...

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Corrie Ten Boom: The measure of...

Corrie Ten Boom: The measure of...

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Source:...

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Lemuel B Haynes: The serpent, before...

Lemuel B Haynes: The serpent, before...

The serpent, before he set up preaching universal salvation, was a cunning, beautiful, and happy creature; but now his...

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Thomas W Higginson: Fields are won...

Thomas W Higginson: Fields are won...

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

Source: In 12,000 Religious...

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John Mason Neale: In his master's...

John Mason Neale: In his master's...

In his master's steps he trod,
Where the snow lay dinted.


Source: Carol
--...

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Jacques Maritain: Poetry proceeds from...

Jacques Maritain: Poetry proceeds from...

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit...

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Antonio Porchia: In a full...

Antonio Porchia: In a full...

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for...

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Hosea Ballou: Doubt is an...

Hosea Ballou: Doubt is an...

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Source: In...

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George Santayana: Fashion is something...

George Santayana: Fashion is something...

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without...

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Emile M Cioran: Torment, for some...

Emile M Cioran: Torment, for some...

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Source: The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The idealist is...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The idealist is...

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his...

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Men will confess...

Men will confess...

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of...

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It is easier...

It is easier...

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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A leader has...

A leader has...

A leader has the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

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