Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
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Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, AT LAST SIGHT, AT EVER AND EVER SIGHT.
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Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
THE FIXITY OF A HABIT IS GENERALLY IN DIRECT PROPORTION TO ITS ABSURDITY.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
GOOD AND BAD MEN ARE EACH LESS SO THAN THEY SEEM.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A VICE IS ONLY AN EXAGGERATION OF A NECESSARY AND VIRTUOUS FUNCTION.
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Lord Byron
Lord Byron
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.
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George Eliot
George Eliot
Oh, blameless people are always the most exasperating.
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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
VICES AND VIRTUES ARE OF A STRANGE NATURE, FOR THE MORE WE HAVE, THE FEWER WE THINK WE HAVE.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Oone should alwayd be drunk… With wine, with poetry, or with virtue as you choose. but get drunk
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
IF THERE WERE NO BAD PEOPLE, THERE WOULD BE NO GOOD LAWYERS.
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G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
THE CHAINS OF HABIT ARE TOO WEAK TO BE FELT UNTIL THEY ARE TOO STRONG TO BE BROKEN.
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Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey
IN MANY WALKS OF LIFE, A CONSCIENCE IS A MORE EXPENSIVE ENCUMBRANCE THAN A WIFE OR A CARRIAGE.
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
HOW LIKE HERRINGS AND ONIONS OUR VICES ARE IN THE MORNING AFTER WE HAVE COMMITTED THEM.
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W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
AN UNFORTUNATE THING ABOUT THIS WORLD IS THAT THE GOOD HABITS ARE MUCH EASIER TO GIVE UP THAN THE BAD ONES.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
I ALWAYS ADVISE PEOPLE NEVER TO GIVE ADVICE.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
I OWE MY SUCCESS TO HAVING LISTENED RESPECTFULLY… TO THE VERY BEST ADVICE… AND THEN GOING AWAY AND DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
NEVER TRY TO KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES. DRAG THEM DOWN TO YOUR LEVEL. IT’S CHEAPER.
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen
WISDOM IS BETTER THAN WIT, AND IN THE LONG RUN WILL CERTAINLY HAVE THE LAUGH ON HER SIDE.
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Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
IN UNIVERSITY THEY DON’T TELL YOU THAT THE GREATER PART OF THE LAW IS LEARNING TO TOLERATE FOOLS.
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George Eliot
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
It is never any use to oneself.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies
I WISH PEOPLE WEREN’T SO SET ON BEING THEMSELVES, WHEN THAT MEANS BEING A BASTARD.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
ALWAYS BORROW MONEY FROM A PESSIMIST. HE WON’T EXPECT IT BACK.
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
People who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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