Category: writer
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Robert A. Heinlein
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Mark Twain
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle