Quotes 3061 till 3080 of 5921.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
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One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
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One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away.
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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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