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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground,…
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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the…
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Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am…
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Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one…
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Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may…
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There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility…
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Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of…
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It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
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There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.…
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I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
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But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.…
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We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if…
— Charles Spurgeon
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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
— Alexander Pope
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires…
— Sigmund Freud
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Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.
— Lucullus
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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
— Edmund Morris
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Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should…
— Nikki Sixx
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Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting -…
— John Derbyshire
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No animal admires another animal.
— Blaise Pascal
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Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have…
— William J. Clinton
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