"There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him."

Miller, Henry on fear
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"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."

Miller, Henry on faith
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"The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal."

Miller, Henry on disasters
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"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."

Miller, Henry on destiny
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"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."

Mailer, Norman on sex
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on eloquence
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."

Santayana, George on death
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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on death
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"Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens."

Ruckett on death
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"It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies."

Proverb, Yiddish on death
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"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

Russell, Bertrand on hope
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"Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

Russell, Bertrand on fools and foolishness
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"Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken."

Russell, Bertrand on experts
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"What shall he fear that does not fear death."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on death   

"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on desire
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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."

Ovid on courage
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"There is a supply for every demand."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on desire   

"Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire."

Proverb on desire   

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

Ovid on desire
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"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."

Helvetius, Claude A. on desire
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"If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream."

Brown, Les on desire
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"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."

Selden, John on alcohol and alcoholism
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues."

Balzac, Honore De on women
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"Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives."

Sontag, Susan on sex   

"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on."

Goldman, Emma on sex   

"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."

Kraus, Karl on crime and criminals   

"He who sleeps half a day has won half a life."

Kraus, Karl on sleep
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"The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."

Kraus, Karl on morality   

"Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other."

Kundera, Milan on eroticism   

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."

Goldsmith, Oliver on girls   

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"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth."

Cartland, Barbara on women
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker."

Nash, Ogden on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Hemingway, Ernest on alcohol and alcoholism
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