Category: writer
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I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy
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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
Zadie Smith
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
Marianne Williamson