"You could not give up a human heart……" — T.H. White
"You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it."
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80 Quotes by T.H. White
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Aviators live by hours, not by days.
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one…
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of…
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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only…
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Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust,…
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Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time,…
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Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness,…
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Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be…
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The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his…
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Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you…
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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly…
— John O. Brennan
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Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked…
— Kris Carr
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There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread…
— Graydon Carter
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies.…
— Jean Cocteau
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We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is…
— Jacques Ellul
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All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements…
— Stephen Hawking
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...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as…
— Marcel Proust
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data,…
— John Dewey
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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics…
— Werner Heisenberg
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It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property,…
— Ayn Rand
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