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  • Anita Loos I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Quentin Crisp I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Mark Twain I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Sand I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Augusto Pinochet I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
    Augusto Pinochet
    Chilean general, politician and dictator (1915 - 2006)
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  • Audre Lorde I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Wilson Mizner I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Charles de Gaulle I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Alexander Henry I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Charles Dickens I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Raymond Chandler I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Angela Merkel I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Rimbaud I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Blake I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Angela Merkel I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Aulus Gellius I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
    Aulus Gellius
    Roman author and grammarian
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  • Oscar Wilde I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Douglas Adams I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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