"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

Austen, Jane on misfortunes
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"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

Austen, Jane on nature
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"Those who do not complain are never pitied."

Austen, Jane on complaints and complaining
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation."

Austen, Jane on opportunity
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"Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."

Bowen, Elizabeth on absence   

"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

Cibber, Colley on absence
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"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on feelings
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."

Dickinson, Emily on farewells
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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on love
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"Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on flattery
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"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."

Aragon, Louis on love
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind   

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on lies and lying
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"Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on learning
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Camus, Albert on discontent
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"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."

Camus, Albert on existence   

"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others."

Camus, Albert on fallibility
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"Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly."

Camus, Albert on free will
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."

Camus, Albert on futility
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"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."

Camus, Albert on love
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"Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."

Camus, Albert on life   

"To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?"

Camus, Albert on injury
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"The innocent is the person who explains nothing."

Camus, Albert on innocence   

"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

Camus, Albert on government
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"It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all."

Camus, Albert on giving
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"To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

James, Henry on life   

"All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!"

Castaneda, Carlos on art
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."

James, Henry on literature   

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"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"

James, Henry on life
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"No person is important enough to make me angry."

Castaneda, Carlos on anger
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