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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able…
— H P Lovecraft
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And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14
— William Shakespeare
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I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their…
— Woody Guthrie
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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and…
— Hermann Hesse
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is…
— Martha Graham
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And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.
— Richard Paul Evans
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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A…
— C.S. Lewis
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How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious…
— Frank McCourt
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You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than anything else in…
— Claudia Gray
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Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
— Eckhart Tolle
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That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.
— Rosalind Miles
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No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the…
— John O'Donohue
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You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your…
— Nicholas Sparks
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[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with…
— Paul Bowles
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to…
— Emily Giffin
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