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Doe Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.
- Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.
- Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
- To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
- What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a…
- Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is…
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi