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[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea… — Antonin Artaud
So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its… — Antonin Artaud
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years… — Brennan Manning
Its so weird how connecting with someone in a different setting can bring out this whole other side of them. Like how certain places inspire… — Susane Colasanti
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone. — Mario Puzo
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of… — Carl Sagan
To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. — Julian Barnes
I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how… — Maggie Stiefvater
i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain… — William Goldman
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared… — Steven Pressfield
It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was heliotropic, with you… — David Levithan
In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. — Ken Jennings
Be confident, not certain — Eleanor Roosevelt
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is… — Thomas Mann
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. — Charlotte Bronte
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose… — Aberjhani
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. — Albert Camus
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says,… — Agatha Christie
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the… — Alain de Botton

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