When One Quotes

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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.… — Albert Camus
There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one? — Virginia Woolf
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future? — Alan Lightman
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something… — Dave Eggers
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough. — Blaise Pascal
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. — Robert M. Pirsig
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by… — Mark Twain
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are… — Marcel Proust
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take… — Banana Yoshimoto
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneâ€™s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons… — Sarah Vowell
There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before… — James Frey
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls… — Oscar Wilde
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was… — Dashiell Hammett
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens. — Terry Tempest Williams

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