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  • Toni Morrison How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
    Paradise (1998)
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Margaret Drabble How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 41
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Augustus William Hare How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Eric Hoffer How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John Milton How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Alfred de Musset How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Juvenal How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Woody Allen How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alexandre Dumas père How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Karl Kraus How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlo Collodi How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bob Marley How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jeremy Collier How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
    Samuel G. Goodrich
     
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