"Life is a horizontal fall." — Jean Cocteau

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• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place… — Karen Armstrong
• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
• Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to… — Mary Kay Ash
• From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any… — Isaac Asimov
• I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
• The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to… — Teresa of Avila
• Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
• I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit… — Lauren Bacall
• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon

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