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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
György Konrád
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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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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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"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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I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
Isaac Asimov
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Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
Paul Muldoon
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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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Beautiful... as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.
Comte de Lautréamont
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There are times when Science does not satisfy.
Rudyard Kipling
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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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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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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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Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
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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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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius
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Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.
Robert Frost
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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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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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One of the main reasons why the sciences are so poor is that they imagine they are so rich. It isn't their job to throw open the door to infinite wisdom but to put a limit to infinite error.
Galileo speaking
Bertolt Brecht
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In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.
Dr. Seuss
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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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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Walter Lord
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The trouble with Ian [Fleming] is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
Rosamond Lehmann
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I love you with all the plenitude of my soul. My love for you is sincere as it is profound and nothing in the world can change it.
John Monk Saunders
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