"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on Difficulties
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on Epitaphs
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"There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see."

Frost, Robert on Grave
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

Frost, Robert on Hell
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."

Frost, Robert on Home
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"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on Argument
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Frost, Robert on Love
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"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."

Frost, Robert on Autumn
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"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

Frost, Robert on Acceptance
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"He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes."

Barrow on Books - Reading
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on Books - Reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on Books - Reading
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"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."

Frost, Robert on Universe
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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Frost, Robert on Books - Reading
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"Books succeed, and lives fail."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Books - Reading
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"Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out."

Gomez-Arcos, Agustin on Winter
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"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."

Schulz, Charles M. on Present
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"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

Picasso, Pablo on Taste
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."

Proverb, English on Experience
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"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel."

Johnson, Samuel on Night
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"And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Night
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"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."

Ovid on Night
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"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on Night
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"Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources."

Trogdon, William on Night
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Adams, Douglas on Dreams
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"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

Bronte, Emily on Dreams
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"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

Pound, Ezra on Despair
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"I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged."

Shakespeare, William on Charm
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"Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first."

Klee, Paul on Beauty
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"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."

Bernanos, Georges on Loneliness
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"The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end."

Alan, Robert on Smile
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on Life and Living
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"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."

Blake, William on Possibilities
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on Life and Living
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"People would rather be wrong than be different."

Jacobsen, Henry on Originality
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"Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright."

Ellis, Alice Thomas on Death and Dying
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"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."

Eliot, T. S. on Spring
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"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."

Reed, Lou on Nostalgia
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"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu."

King, Florence on Nostalgia
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"I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t."

Unknown, Source on Romance and Romanticism
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