Category: writer
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
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God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.
Marianne Williamson
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia Woolf
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
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‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut