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Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for...
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… everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate,...
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now...
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become...
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Quote #15809
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I...
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Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely...
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I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against...