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  • Agatha Christie Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
    Death in the Clouds (1935)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Marquis de Sade Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Aeschylus Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Alexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
    Essay on Man 1, 276
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • James Baldwin All art is a kind of confession.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Gail Sheehy All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Aldous Huxley All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All diseases run into one. Old age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père All for one, one for all, that is our device.
    The Three Musketeers
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père All for one, one for all.
    Original: Tous pour un, un pour tous.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
    Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 7
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Gilbert Seldes All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jonathan Swift All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Babe Ruth All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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