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Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordTh — Oscar Wilde, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
Sometimes I turn around and catch the smell of you and I cannot go on I cannot fucking go on without expressing this ter — Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go a — E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
You will make all kinds of mistakes — but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. — P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ou — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental. — Jacques Maritain, An Introduction to Philosophy
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simu — George Orwell, 1984
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I have liv — Gordon B. Hinckley
A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. — Aleister Crowley
...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it. — John Paul II, Love and Responsibility
Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. What in this universe — Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3
I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever - do not abandon the works of your hands. — Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it. — Thomas M. Sterner, The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial. — John Paul II, Love and Responsibility
Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice. — Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and — Ruadhán J. McElroy
You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into h — C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948