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  • Alberto Giacometti That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bobby Fischer That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Barry McGuire That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Leslie Fiedler The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Sir William Temple The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • André Gide The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Iris Murdoch The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Jean Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination - aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Butler The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Frist The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Oscar Wilde The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Georges Bataille The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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