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Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… — Hermann Hesse
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so… — Gregory Maguire
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence… — Anne Carson
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty… — Barbara Mertz
Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on… — Robert Farrar Capon
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication] — Agatha Christie
God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest. — Lynne Ewing
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which… — W. Somerset Maugham
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil Gibran
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it… — Albert Camus
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.… — Aristotle
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that… — Daisaku Ikeda
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons… — Graham Greene
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead… — Henry Ward Beecher
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. — Haruki Murakami
I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to… — Libba Bray

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