Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
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I don't dream about actors and actresses they dream about me. I am reality, they are not.
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I respect everyone. I even respect journalists.
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
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When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
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It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
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The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion.
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
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All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
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The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.
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The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core.
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If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one.
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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not.
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If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. A. J.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics.
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The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one.
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
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If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport.
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. John von Neumann 18401 The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.
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