"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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"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on secrets
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"Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

Jung, Carl on sadness
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"Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not."

Crowley, Aleister on romance and romanticism   

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Thoreau, Henry David on busyness
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"The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further."

Ogilvie, Sir Heneage on busyness   

"If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren't ready for heaven."

Unknown, Source on busyness   

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me."

Bridges, Robert on love
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

Chazal, Malcolm De on love
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing."

Fadiman, Clifton on quotations
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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