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George Eliot: I desire no...

George Eliot: I desire no...

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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George Eliot: Renunciation remains sorrow,...

George Eliot: Renunciation remains sorrow,...

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Source: The Mill on...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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George Eliot: It is possible...

George Eliot: It is possible...

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the...

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Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and...

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Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Nature, like us is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.


Source: The Complete...

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Judith Jamison: People come to...

Judith Jamison: People come to...

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Source: in WomenSports...

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Shirley Temple Black: No country has...

Shirley Temple Black: No country has...

No country has washed more dirty laundry in public than we have.

Source: In...

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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

Emily Dickinson: I took one...

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they...

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Maya Angelou: Listen carefully to...

Maya Angelou: Listen carefully to...

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of...

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Maya Angelou: There is a...

Maya Angelou: There is a...

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Source:...

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Susan Sontag: What pornographic literature...

Susan Sontag: What pornographic literature...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Every child was...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Every child was...

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew...

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Dorothy Parker: Lips that taste...

Dorothy Parker: Lips that taste...

Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.


Source:...

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Rita Mae Brown: Language is the...

Rita Mae Brown: Language is the...

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are...

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Rita Mae Brown: Humor comes from...

Rita Mae Brown: Humor comes from...

Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.

Source:...

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Rita Mae Brown: The statistics on...

Rita Mae Brown: The statistics on...

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think...

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George Eliot: There is much...

George Eliot: There is much...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the...

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George Eliot: Most of us...

George Eliot: Most of us...

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach...

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George Eliot: He was like...

George Eliot: He was like...

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Source: Adam...

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