"To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt……" — George Gissing
"To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it."
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George Gissing
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35 Quotes by George Gissing
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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching…
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one…
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the…
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no…
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to…
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as…
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How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out…
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of…
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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be…
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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