Merely Quotes

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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on… — Oscar Wilde
It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you… — Michael Marshall Smith
There was a time when I didnâ€™t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage… — Albert Camus
I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely a device to… — R A Salvatore
Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly.… — Ayn Rand
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Magic never dies. It merely fades away. — Terry Pratchett
Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage… — Orson Scott Card
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,… — C.S. Lewis
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the… — Julian Barnes
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different… — Robert Anton Wilson
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates… — Albert Einstein
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence — Arthur C. Clarke
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating… — John Green
She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening… — Anais Nin
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live… — Henry David Thoreau
In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew — Jerry Spinelli

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