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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…
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I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop…
— Margaret Cho
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Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding…
— George Whitefield
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Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan…
— Pete La Roca
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I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs…
— Robert Smithson
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To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
— James A. Baldwin
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
— Laura Marling
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Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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