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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence...
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It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people...
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are...
Quote #6869
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative...
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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning...
Quote #34304
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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What I’ve learned. . . . I’ve learned that just when I get my...
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God...
Quote #6108
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had...