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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
— Osbert Sitwell
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It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.
— George Vaillant
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We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of…
— Thomas Browne
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Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for…
— Khalil Gibran
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The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately.…
— Frederick Lenz
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
— Pablo Picasso
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Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
— Hans Selye
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The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
— Anne Rice
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Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.
— Woody Allen
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That's the coolest thing I've ever seen," Puck said. "How cool will it be when it kills us?" Sabrina asked. "Considerably less…
— Michael Buckley
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our…
— Virginia Woolf
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