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George Eliot: How could a...

George Eliot: How could a...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he...

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George Eliot: Self-confidence is apt...

George Eliot: Self-confidence is apt...

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a...

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Helen Keller: When we do...

Helen Keller: When we do...

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The curse which...

Simone de Beauvoir: The curse which...

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Source: In...

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Susan Sontag: For those who...

Susan Sontag: For those who...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as...

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George Eliot: No soul is...

George Eliot: No soul is...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and...

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George Eliot: A toddling little...

George Eliot: A toddling little...

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each...

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Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...

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Dorothy Parker: I misremember who...

Dorothy Parker: I misremember who...

I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too...

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Susan Sontag: It is not...

Susan Sontag: It is not...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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Susan Sontag: Intelligence is really...

Susan Sontag: Intelligence is really...

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Source: On Photography, In...

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George Eliot: If we use...

George Eliot: If we use...

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a...

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Dorothy Parker: He has a...

Dorothy Parker: He has a...

He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...

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George Eliot: The sons of...

George Eliot: The sons of...

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice,...

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Susan Sontag: Much of modern...

Susan Sontag: Much of modern...

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we...

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Dorothy Parker: Wit has truth...

Dorothy Parker: Wit has truth...

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Source: In...

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Susan Sontag: The painter constructs,...

Susan Sontag: The painter constructs,...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Source: On Photography, The...

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George Eliot: This is a...

George Eliot: This is a...

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

Source: Mr. Tulliver,...

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George Eliot: It's them as...

George Eliot: It's them as...

It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

Source: Mrs. Poyser,...

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