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1595 Finds quotes by 1148 unique authors
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She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
— Hilary Mantel
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
— Don DeLillo
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The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.
— Thomas Bernhard
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Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you
— William Landay
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There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb…
— Kami Garcia
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A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next…
— Georges Bataille
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Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province,…
— Federico Fellini
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Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when *it* thinks you're ready.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with…
— Ayn Rand
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Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life…
— Michael Crichton
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In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.
— Isaac Asimov
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Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge finds out- oh, gods, you've been here all night?" "Frank!"…
— Rick Riordan
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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen…
— William Carlos Williams
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If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo,…
— Milan Kundera
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what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually…
— Italo Calvino
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There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.
— Saul Williams
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Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows…
— Ricky Gervais
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The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”,…
— Brennan Manning
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Loneliness is holding the one you love When you know you might never hold him again. Even lost in the darkness My heart will find…
— Kami Garcia
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What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it…
— Hermann Hesse
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When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always…
— Paulo Coelho
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
— Epicurus
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