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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
C. S. Lewis
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There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.
Arturo Graf
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
Madame de Stael
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
Emile Zola
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Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.
Ayn Rand
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In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
Jacques Derrida
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Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.
Chinua Achebe
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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
John Cowper Powys
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The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Arnold Bennett
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
Samuel Johnson
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
Denis Diderot
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"Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "" I shall alter that when I have a little more time""? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is."
Arnold Bennett
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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
James Joyce
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A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton
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Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.
Ayn Rand
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
Kingsley Amis
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I have no enemies and no hatred.
Liu Xiaobo
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New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.
Toni Jerrman
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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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