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16664 End quotes by 8086 unique authors
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It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate…
— D. H. Lawrence
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is…
— Marquis de Sade
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened…
— Joseph Conrad
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Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
— Lord Byron
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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each…
— Tennessee Williams
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its…
— Primo Levi
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in…
— Plutarch
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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better,…
— Anne Frank
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I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although…
— Amy Johnson
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I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
— Billy Collins
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Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the…
— John Aldridge
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All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
— David Cronenberg
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Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human…
— John F. Kennedy
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If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want…
— William Whiting Borden
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we…
— Ann Curry
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I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].…
— James Madison
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Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs…
— Lyle Lovett
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.…
— Lorenz Hart
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It…
— Ronald Reagan
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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,…
— Victor Hugo
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