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1595 Finds quotes by 1148 unique authors
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It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself…
— Louis Althusser
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I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds…
— Arthur Golden
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All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves,…
— Hermann Hesse
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People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my…
— Ilona Andrews
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isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider…
— David Levithan
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It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his…
— Jennifer Crusie
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The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very…
— Donita K. Paul
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
— Lynda Barry
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Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one…
— Lauren Oliver
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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From…
— Haruki Murakami
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A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds…
— Dale Carnegie
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In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form…
— Paulo Coelho
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What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
— Peter Singer
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But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men…
— Christopher Isherwood
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a…
— Marcel Proust
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This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape…
— Peter Kreeft
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I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on…
— Jose Saramago
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There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place…
— Frank Herbert
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I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I changed your life.” She looked down at the peach they shared. “You changed min. I’m glad of it.” And back into his eyes. “Every…
— Nora Roberts
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I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who…
— Richard Russo
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