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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Thomas Dekker A mask of gold hides all deformities.
    Thomas Dekker
    English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572 - 1632)
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  • George Orwell A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
    Politics and the English Language (1945)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Virginia Woolf A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • William Shakespeare A merry heart goes all the day,
    Your sad tires in a mile-a.
    The Winter's Tale (1610) 4,3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Cowley A mighty pain to love it is,
    And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
    But of all pains, the greatest pain
    It is to love, but love in vain.
    From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Augustus Hare A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • William Wordsworth A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Thomas Carlyle A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one
    Goethe's Works (1832)
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    German author, poet, translator and editor (1929 - )
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  • William Shakespeare A peace above all earhtly dignities: A still and quiet conscience.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ian McEwan A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
    Atonement (2001)
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Margaret Deland A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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  • William Butler Yeats A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Allen Tate A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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