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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Agatha Christie

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.