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There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way. No day but today!
Jonathan Larson
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
Alfred Jarry
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Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
Arthur Adamov
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You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.
Anton Chekhov
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He who talks much cannot always talk well.
Carlo Goldoni
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
Henrik Ibsen
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Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholem Aleichem
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Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.
William Shakespeare
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I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
In Latin: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.
Terence
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Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.
Jean Giraudoux
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You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Waban and the spray of your garden hose. And not necessarily then do you live up to it.
Mary Hunter Austin
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Before
We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we
Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us,
But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not
Enter their profane temples; and for me
To hope my passage to eternity
Can be made easy, till I have shook off
The burthen of my sins in free confession,
Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them,
Is against reason.
Philip Massinger
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
Jean Genet
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Everybody can be wrong sometime, and when you wrong you oughta stand up and be wrong right out, and not be hidin and lyin.
Alice Childress
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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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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.
Paul Goodman
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It is my father. He is arriving again for the night. He comes through the jungle to find me. He never tires of his journey.
Adrienne Kennedy
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There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.
Dodie Smith
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