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When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
James Norman Hall
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In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Jerry Kramer
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Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
Alexander Pushkin
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Camilo José Cela
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Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.
J. K. Rowling
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Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.
Stephen King
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera
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Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.
Helen Keller
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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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I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Isaac Rosenberg
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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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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Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
Jean Cocteau
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Nothing now remains for us seven but to go back to Stable Hill, proclaim the truth, and take the adventure that Aslan sends us.
C. S. Lewis
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My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
Colette
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
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Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
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You're a grand old flag;
You're a high-flying flag.
And forever in peace may you wave.
George M. Cohan
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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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