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Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.
Aleister Crowley
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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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Bits of jokes, bits of statistics, bits of foolery.
George Gissing
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There were no storks in Shora. Lina had written this story about storks of her own accord-the teacher hadn't asked her to write it. In fact, until Lina read it out loud to the five boys and the teacher, nobody in school had even thought about storks.
Meindert DeJong
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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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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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What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through a little speaker...I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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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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When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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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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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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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
Walter de la Mare
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Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
Warren Farrell
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Fame is something different from popularity. It is less demanding for a start and has more to do with talent than virtue. But not even much to do with talent.
Jim Crace
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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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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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Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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Curious wits, not be a slave of one science, or dwell altogether in one subject as most do, but [should] rove abroad, to have an oar in every mans boat, to taste of every dish, and sip of every cup,
Robert Burton
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Charles Bernstein
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Oh! make me Thine forever;
And should I fainting be,
Lord! let me never, never,
Outlive my love to Thee!
Paul Gerhardt
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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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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 know everything, but I don't understand any of it.
René Daumal
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So some unlucky Engineer Does all the fit Materials compound, That are in Art or Nature found; Will glorious Fire-Works prepare.
Sarah Egerton
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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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