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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Oscar Wilde For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Lord George Byron For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Aldous Huxley For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alice Walker For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Aeschylus For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Virginia Woolf For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bennett Cerf For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Bennett Cerf For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Plympton For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
    Lecture at the University of Maryland (March 2005)
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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