"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."

Seabury, David on Advice
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"What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again... [Ecclesiastes 1:9]"

Bible on Cycles
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."

Duras, Marguerite on Love Ended
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on Love
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"Not a day went past when I was not filled with loathing and disgust at the decisions I had to make."

Monash, John on
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"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue."

Xenocrates of Chalcedon on Silence
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"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out."

Rossner, Judith on Courage
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

Kierkegaard, Soren on Anxiety
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"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others."

Wilde, Oscar on Wickedness
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"Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts."

King, Stephen on Pain
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"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

Woolf, Virginia on Pain
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"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body."

Syrus, Publilius on Pain
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"I can resist everything except temptation."

Wilde, Oscar on Temptation
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"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."

Pavese, Cesare on Suicide
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on Suicide
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"Drunkenness is temporary suicide."

Russell, Bertrand on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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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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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

Bukowski, Charles on Bachelor
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"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on Friends and Friendship
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Women
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"O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Shakespeare, William on Insomnia
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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off."

Thoreau, Henry David on Independence
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"Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse."

Unknown, Source on Love
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"Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

Maugham, W. Somerset on Tolerance
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"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

Beaumont, Francis on Death and Dying
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on Death and Dying
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"How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Death and Dying
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"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Death and Dying
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"No vacation goes unpunished."

Hakkarainen, Karl A. on Vacation
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"I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words."

Billings, Josh on Speakers and Speaking
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"Life is very interesting if you make mistakes."

Carpentier, Georges on Life and Living
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"Life is one long process of getting tired."

Butler, Samuel on Life and Living
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"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

Billings, Josh on Life and Living
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"The less routine the more life."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Life and Living
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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

Twain, Mark on Travel and Tourism
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on Life and Living
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"A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself."

Brougham, Lord Henry P. on Law and Lawyers
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"A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500."

Brewster, Benjamin on Law and Lawyers
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"Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made."

Bismarck, Otto Von on Law and Lawyers
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"The law is reason, free from passion."

Aristotle on Law and Lawyers
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