"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

Wilde, Oscar on attitude
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on loyalty
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"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on patience
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"When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking
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"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking
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"Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking   

"The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on truth
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"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on truth
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on beauty   

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."

Auvil, Myrtle on love
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"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."

Dryden, John on love
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"Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter."

Eliot, T. S. on love
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on purpose
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."

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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."

Kafka, Franz on kisses and kissing
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"In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on passion
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"As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady."

Pound, Ezra on passion   

"Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world."

Aughey, John H. on sensuality
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"An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life."

Prevert, Jacques on love
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"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

Russell, Bertrand on passion
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"Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society."

Confucius on manners
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"Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away."

Confucius on animals
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves."

Confucius on happiness
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"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

Confucius on right and rightness
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Jung, Carl on sanity
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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

Jung, Carl on understanding
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"The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on egotism
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