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Emile M Cioran: The fanatic is...

Emile M Cioran: The fanatic is...

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case,...

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Ernest Renan: The simplest schoolboy...

Ernest Renan: The simplest schoolboy...

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his...

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Maimonides: Medical practice is...

Maimonides: Medical practice is...

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be...

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Maimonides: The soul is...

Maimonides: The soul is...

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly...

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Albert Camus: We are not...

Albert Camus: We are not...

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make...

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Thomas Paine: Tis the business...

Thomas Paine: Tis the business...

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,...

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Edith Wharton: I have never...

Edith Wharton: I have never...

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Great men have...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Great men have...

Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...

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Dwight L Moody: We are told...

Dwight L Moody: We are told...

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire...

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Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the...

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A W Tozer: The Word of...

A W Tozer: The Word of...

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: If you do...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: If you do...

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or...

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Jane Rule: I had never...

Jane Rule: I had never...

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...

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Jane Rule: I believe only...

Jane Rule: I believe only...

I believe only in art and failure.

Source: This is Not for You, 1970.
-- Jane...

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Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage...

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Theodore Dreiser: Art is the...

Theodore Dreiser: Art is the...

Art is the stored honey of the human soul,
gathered on wings of misery and travail.


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Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful -- there are far too many children.

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Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

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Sir Walter Besant: A man of...

Sir Walter Besant: A man of...

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral...

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