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"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."

Barthes, Roland on sarcasm    Share


"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first."

Comins, David H on ideas
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"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

Rumi, Jalal ad-Din on love
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"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."

Breton, Andre on love
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"You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion."

Marden, Orison Swett on love
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I'm female and made my book on 25th December 2011.

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