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Lord Dunsany has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and…
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
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I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of…
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which…
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what…
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced…
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And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder…
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And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way…
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Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at…
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There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those…
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Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view,…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
— Laurence Sterne
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There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
— John Steinbeck
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from…
— Horace
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
— Mark Twain
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose,…
— V.S. Naipaul
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If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more…
— Joanna Lumley
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Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman.…
— Sam Keen
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When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned…
— Thomas Dolby
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Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other…
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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If I would have been in a different world Like I frequently am when I see you Oh I might have missed…
— Ric Ocasek
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