When One Quotes

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It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do. — Jim Davis
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. — P D Ouspensky
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence… — Barry Lopez
You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. — Josephine Humphreys
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it. — Alexandre Dumas
So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly… — John Wyndham
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a… — Oscar Wilde
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything. — Elizabeth Berg
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how… — Pico Iyer
I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems… — Nick Hornby
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't… — Nicole Krauss
One is never so strong as when one is broken. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be… — Mary Balogh
With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at… — Junichiro Tanizaki
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty… — Ayn Rand
How easy it was to lie when one had to lie! — Patricia Highsmith
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions… — Jim Butcher
When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic. — Joseph Stalin
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is… — Dante Alighieri

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