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  • Elias Canetti There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Oscar Wilde There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Pablo Picasso Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Andre Breton To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Thomas Fuller Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Helen Keller True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy cause.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Thomas Fuller Trust not in him that seems a saint.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Pablo Picasso We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Simone Weil We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Pablo Picasso We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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