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- I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation…
- Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and,…
- Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that…
- What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and…
- A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal.…
- I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be…
- The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being,…
- And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.
- Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt