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Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
Douglas Adams
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I sit beside my lonely fire
And pray for wisdom yet:
For calmness to remember
Or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
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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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The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.
Robert Blair
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I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
Marvin Bell
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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
Vittorio Alfieri
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It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
Margery Allingham
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Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
Martin Amis
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I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.
George Colman the Elder
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In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
Maya Angelou
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When a man has been the lover of a woman as that man had been hers, with the vibrating communion of a voluptuousness unbroken for two years, that woman maintains a sort of physiological, quasi-animal instinct. A gesture, the accent of a word, a sigh, a blush, a pallor, are signs for her that her intuition interprets with infallible certainty. How and why is that instinct accompanied by absolute oblivion of former caresses? It is a particular case of that insoluble and melancholy problem of the birth and death of love.
Paul Bourget
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The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
Pietro Aretino
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Charles Bernstein
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
Antonin Artaud
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Ay, this is the famed rock, which Hercules
And Goth and Moor bequeathed us. At this door
England stands sentry.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
Pierre Beaumarchais
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And His that gentle voice we hear,
Soft as the breath of even.
Harriet Auber
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This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.
Richard Bach
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This saying is both true and terse:
There's nothing bad but might be worse.
Thornton Burgess
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I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.
R. Scott Bakker
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I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.
Horatius Bonar
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Whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.
Henri Barbusse
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If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.
John Barnes
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
A. C. Benson
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