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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
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Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
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Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
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Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
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Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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Born down in a dead man's town;
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up.Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
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