"We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears."

Auden, W. H. on new year   

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

Auden, W. H. on opera
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"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."

Auden, W. H. on patience
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"My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth."

Auden, W. H. on politics
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."

Chapin Jr., Roy D. on opportunity
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"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on reason
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"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sports
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"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

Greer, Germaine on loneliness
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"Life begins on the other side of despair."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on despair
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"Hell is other people."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on hell
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"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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"Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on love
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"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on passion   

"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."

Beauvoir, Simone De on feminism
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"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Beauvoir, Simone De on change
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"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."

Pope, Alexander on absence
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"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality
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"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."

Dickinson, Emily on opportunity
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Edison, Thomas A. on opportunity
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"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity   

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity
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"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

Foch, Ferdinand on failure
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"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Franklin, Benjamin on love   

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on absence
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