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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
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
Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice. — Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
We must listen to poets. — Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gand — The New York Times
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the p — Émile Durkheim, On Suicide: A Study in Sociology
Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free — Émile Durkheim, On Suicide: A Study in Sociology
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. — Lester B. Pearson
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more b — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant — Victor Sebestyen, Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! — Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives
I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, an — Taylor Swift
Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an i — Émile Durkheim, On Suicide: A Study in Sociology
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.    To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
When God calls you to build 100 castles on earth and you built 98, take the 99th as if it's the begining of your work an — Israelmore Ayivor
Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believ — Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have bee — Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3
Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeate — Mordecai Richler
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to — surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.