Quote #33016
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are...
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used...
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do...
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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age,...
Quote #6444
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another–no...
Quote #14714
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to...
Quote #612
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people...