"There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it."

Herzen, Alexander on tradition   

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."

Francis De Sales, St. on individuality   

"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."

Poe, Edgar Allan on thoughts and thinking
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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on friends and friendship
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on friends and friendship
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"Love is a friendship caught on fire."

Northern Exposure on love
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"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith."

Russell, Bertrand on contentment
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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

Rossetti, Christina on love
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems."

Southey, Robert on appearance
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"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on attitude
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"It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it."

Collier, Robert on desire
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"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

Pascal, Blaise on love
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"At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try."

Unknown, Source on love   

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."

Peale, Norman Vincent on possibilities   

"There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on failure
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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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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"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on love
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"Faults are beauties in a lovers eye."

Theocritus on faults
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"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

Shakespeare, William on travel
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Frost, Robert on love
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"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire."

Browning, Robert on desire   

"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."

Winterson, Jeanette on love   

"A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality."

Kraus, Karl on eroticism   

"Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle."

Paglia, Camille on seduction
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"Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself."

Vidal, Gore on sex
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"Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules."

Feldman, Marty on sex
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"Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes."

Sade, Marquis De on lust
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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."

Welch, Robert on government
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"When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents."

Shakespeare, William on competition   

"Strength is a matter of a made up mind."

Beecher, John on strength
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

Schweitzer, Albert on adversity
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"You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination."

Trefusis, Violet on love   

"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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