"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."

Crisp, Quentin on relationship
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"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."

Friedan, Betty on relationship
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"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on animals   

"A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on women   

"Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on models and modeling   

"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on pleasure   

"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on poetry and poets   

"I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on evil
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"A dimple on the chin, the devil within."

Proverb, Gaelic on appearance   

"The devil's name is dullness."

Lee, Robert E. on bores and boredom   

"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."

Maurois, Andre on confidence
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"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."

Maurois, Andre on conversation
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"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on conversation   

"Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit."

Colton, Charles Caleb on conversation   

"I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull."

Congreve, William on conversation   

"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."

Bronowski, Jacob on dissent
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"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects."

Fulbright, J. William on dissent   

"I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself."

Gramsci, Antonio on dissent   

"You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."

Havel, Vaclav on dissent   

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"Discussion in America means dissent."

Thurber, James on dissent   

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

Mill, John Stuart on dissent
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on virtue
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"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on virtue   

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

Diderot, Denis on virtue   

"Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored."

Huxley, Aldous on facts
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."

Roux, Joseph on conversation
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"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

Roux, Joseph on conflict
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"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

Roux, Joseph on quotations
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"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

Roux, Joseph on experience
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"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."

Roux, Joseph on emotions
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

Huxley, Aldous on happiness
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"We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends."

Huxley, Aldous on science   

"The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."

Huxley, Aldous on morality
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"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."

Huxley, Aldous on mistakes
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"An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support"

Huxley, Aldous on atheism
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"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

Huxley, Aldous on popularity
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