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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
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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!
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XVI -
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
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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 most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
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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 those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
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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 for The Beatles in San Francisco at the Cow Palace was great. It was terrific fun to do. The tour itself, I must say, wasn't a whole lot of fun, artistically. It was just more kind of interesting.
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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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