Category: writer
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
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Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.
Michelle Obama
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson
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Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
Paulo Coelho
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare