When One Quotes

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Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ." — C.S. Lewis
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom… — Henry Miller
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone. — Mervyn Peake
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson
How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you,… — Marquis de Sade
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his… — John Knowles
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face,… — Albert Camus
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that… — Virginia Woolf
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,… — Harlan Ellison
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void. — Diane Setterfield
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above… — Rene Daumal
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there… — Helen Keller
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the… — Oscar Wilde
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then,… — Daphne du Maurier
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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