"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."

Feiffer, Jules on adolescence
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"He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front."

Levinson, Leonard Louis on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on friends and friendship
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"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."

Gay, John on friends and friendship
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"When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker."

Woolf, Virginia on controversy   

"Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?"

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share."

Woolf, Virginia on war   

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on friends and friendship
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

Walker, Alice on friends and friendship
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Nin, Anais on friends and friendship
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"The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one."

Proverb, Jewish on friends and friendship   

"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."

Richter, Jean Paul on friends and friendship
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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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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"Friendship is love with understanding."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

Voltaire on friends and friendship
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression."

Home, Henry on solitude
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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

Mann, Thomas on solitude
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"If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning."

Cannon, Damien on pessimism
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"No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone."

Browne, Jackson on solitude
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"A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes."

Blanchot, Maurice on solitude
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

Kafka, Franz on suffering
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"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."

Kafka, Franz on goals   

"The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."

Dyer, Wayne on understanding
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"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

Percy, Walker on life
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"Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe."

Leary, Denis on life
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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

West, Rebecca on conversation
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"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."

Garofalo, Janeane on pessimism
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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

Marquis, Don on pessimism
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"Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on poetry and poets   

"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity
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"Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on masses
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"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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