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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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In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?
James Branch Cabell
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And His that gentle voice we hear,
Soft as the breath of even.
Harriet Auber
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
William Congreve
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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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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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On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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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 know everything, but I don't understand any of it.
René Daumal
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The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.
Terry Brooks
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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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This saying is both true and terse:
There's nothing bad but might be worse.
Thornton Burgess
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Charles Bernstein
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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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Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted house and to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.
Billy Collins
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Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-shop appears,
As the red waves of wretchedness swell;
How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years—
The horrible Light-house of Hell!
McDonald Clarke
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Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.
John Barth
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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
Elias Canetti
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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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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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If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.
Joseph Brodsky
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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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With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone…
René Char
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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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Ah, me! the Prison House of Pain! — what lessons there are bought! — Lessons of a sublimer strain Than any elsewhere taught.
Florence Earle Coates
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