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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in...
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs...
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what...
Quote #5110
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays –...
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that...
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume...
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I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I...
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect,...