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  • Washington Irving In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Francis Bacon In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Albert Camus In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Hermann Hesse In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • George Santayana In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Brooks Atkinson In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Source: Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Boethius In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Arthur Keith In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Christopher Morley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Edna O'Brien In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ''Is there someone new?''
    Edna O'Brien
    Irish writer and poet (1930 - 2024)
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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • John Muir In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
    John Muir
    Scottish-American writer and conservationist (1838 - 1914)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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