"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."

Artaud, Antonin on drugs
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"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."

Mamet, David on honesty   

"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey."

Proust, Marcel on illness   

"As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands."

Byron, Lord on ambition
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"Time is that in which all things pass away."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on time   

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"Passions are the only orators to always convinces us."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on speakers and speaking   

"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

Half, Robert on talent
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"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."

Churchill, Winston on security
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"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."

Trotsky, Leon on planning   

"He who is not impatient is not in love."

Proverb, Italian on love
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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Hugo, Victor on action
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"We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us."

Yeats, William Butler on happiness   

"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."

Cocteau, Jean on criticism
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"Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself."

Kierkegaard, Søren on bores and boredom
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers."

Truman, Harry S on politics   

"Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly."

Boileau, Nicholas on reason
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"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return."

Boileau, Nicholas on honor
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"If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires."

Boileau, Nicholas on ancestry
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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."

Russell, Bertrand on illusion
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"These have not the hope to die."

Dante Alighieri on death   

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on desire
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees."

Wordsworth, William on death
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