"Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

Guest, Judith on depression
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"Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on juries
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"A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on birds
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on action
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"Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on riches
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"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on art   

"I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave."

Virgil on death
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"Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God."

Virgil on god   

"I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,"

Barnard, Charlotte on past
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"The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted."

Shakespeare, William on music
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors
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"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

Joyce, James on poetry and poets   

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

Lincoln, Abraham on god
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"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

Tagore, Rabindranath on life
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."

Nabokov, Vladimir on murder   

"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

Nabokov, Vladimir on genius
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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Nabokov, Vladimir on fiction   

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

Nabokov, Vladimir on existence
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do."

Channing, William Ellery on character
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"Wherever the fates lead us let us follow."

Virgil on fate
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"Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming."

Virgil on death
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"Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low."

Virgil on empire   

"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Tagore, Rabindranath on art
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"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it."

Tagore, Rabindranath on bigotry   

"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

Tagore, Rabindranath on truth
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist"

Baudelaire, Charles on evil
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"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."

Baudelaire, Charles on fantasy
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"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."

Baudelaire, Charles on genius
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me."

Baudelaire, Charles on madness
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"Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul."

Baudelaire, Charles on rejection
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"A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle."

Baudelaire, Charles on wives   

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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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"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

Ovid on desire
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"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose."

Ovid on honesty   

"That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself."

Ovid on people