Category: writer
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
Albert Camus
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Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Eckhart Tolle
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
Woody Allen
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller
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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It’s always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you’re going.
Anthony Burgess