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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
Year to Success -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
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Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you!
Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XVI -
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
A Preface to Paradise Lost (1941) -
Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
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Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by feelings, and not by the intellect.
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