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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
Henry Drummond
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Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
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True human life does not take place in time but always "is" at the "timeless" point where the past becomes the future - a point which we incorrectly label the present. This is a timeless point, and people are free only at this point.
Leo Tolstoy
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She moves the way clocks move. And on her face, as on a clock dial which someone shines a light onto at night, a strange, briefly shown hour stands: a terrifying hour, in which someone dies.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Isaac Rosenberg
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I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
François Mauriac
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The physician has a sacred mission on earth; and to fulfill it he begins at the source of life, and goes down to the mysterious darkness of the tomb.
Alexandre Dumas
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Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.
Henry David Thoreau
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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Lady Margaret Sackville
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Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
Kahlil Gibran
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Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
Sherwood Eddy
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I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now
Emily Dickinson
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Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
Lewis Carroll
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There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
Marcel Proust
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A great enormous thing, like — like nothing. A huge big — well, like a — I don't know — like an enormous big nothing.
A. A. Milne
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"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
Charles Dickens
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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholem Aleichem
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To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.
Virginia Woolf
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What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
Antonio Porchia
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The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.
Louise Closser Hale
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What's the use of praying for a thing, if when it comes, you won't take it?
Frances Harper
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Don Carlos was one of those peaceful and indolent men who do not know how to do evil, nor to go to great lengths to do good.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
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