"I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles."

Marx, Karl on isolation   

"We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet."

Boyd, William on happiness
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"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."

Boone, Daniel on happiness
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"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."

Alda, Alan on happiness   

"Call no man happy till he is dead."

Aeschylus on happiness
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"Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could."

Polanski, Roman on confidence
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"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."

Galeano, Eduardo on temptation
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"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."

Robbins, Anthony on pain
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"But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end."

Lowell, James Russell on death   

"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Saroyan, William on life
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"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."

Dinesen, Isak on horror   

"My work is done why wait."

Eastman, George on famous last words   

"The fog is rising."

Dickinson, Emily on famous last words
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"Now comes the mystery."

Beecher, Henry Ward on famous last words
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"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."

Henry, O. on famous last words
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"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."

Hobbes, Thomas on famous last words
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"Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."

Jackson, Stonewall on famous last words
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"Drink to me."

Picasso, Pablo on famous last words
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa]"

Villa, Pancho on famous last words
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"It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. "

Washington, George on famous last words
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"Go away...I'm alright."

Wells, H.G. on famous last words
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"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."

Beckett, Samuel on parents and parenting   

"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another."

Aesop on discontent
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"Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so."

Goldsmith, Oliver on drugs   

"Enemies promises were made to be broken."

Aesop on enemies
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"We must not let daylight in upon the magic."

Bagehot, Walter on magic
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"There is something in omens."

Ovid on magic
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"Love is full of anxious fears."

Ovid on anxiety
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"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."

Baudrillard, Jean on love
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"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

Seneca on anxiety
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"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."

Brisbane, Arthur on solitude
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Woolf, Virginia on circumstance
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"I want to be left alone."

Garbo, Greta on solitude
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"We never touch but at points."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Apocrypha on friends and friendship
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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