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3313 quotes by 2187 authors
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I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s…
— Jan Neruda
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In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the…
— Charles Simic
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The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared…
— Laurie R. King
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You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first…
— Jane Austen
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We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is…
— Nhat Hanh
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give…
— Albert Camus
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You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder…
— Ralph Nader
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This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't…
— Deb Caletti
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I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath…
— Markus Zusak
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Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes…
— Douglas Coupland
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Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no…
— Terry Goodkind
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I wasn’t going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it…
— Christine Feehan
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