February 2012
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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– Nietzsche
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“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
– Mel Brooks
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“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a...”
– George Burns
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“The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious...”
– Elie Wiesel
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“Children without childhood are a dark and fearsome spectacle.”
– Mokher Sefarim Mendele
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“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that...”
– Henry Ward Beecher
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“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they...”
– Helen Keller
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“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I...”
– Star Trek: TNG
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“I never tire of birdsong and sky and weather. I want to write poems that are...”
– Stanley Kunitz
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“Man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of...”
– William Wordsworth
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“People will show you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be...”
– Don Draper
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“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
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Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni) 1 The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark - now glittering - now reflecting gloom - Now lending splendor, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters, - with a sound but half its own, Such as a feeble brook will oft assume In the wild woods, amon the mountains lone,...
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“My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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“Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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“I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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“I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and darkness …”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“I’m yours for ever—for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If...”
– Henry James
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“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I...”
– Anne Frank
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“Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is...”
– Katherine Hepburn
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“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you’ve learned, forget...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?”
– Daphne du Maurier
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“The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
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“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“What other people think of you is none of your business.”
– Paulo Coelho
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“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in...”
– Bob Dylan
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“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
– Mitch Albom
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“In the end, everyone loses everyone.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green
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“Don’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be happy all the time… It’s gotten...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few...”
– Christopher Isherwood
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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
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“The only real edginess is honesty.”
– Marc Maron
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“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
– Jack Kerouac
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“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence...”
– Michael Crichton
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“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human...”
– Anna Louise Strong
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“There is an indefinable, mysterious power. It is so unlike all that I perceive...”
– Gandhi