"Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much."

Proust, Marcel on imagination   

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

Proust, Marcel on dream
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"People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus."

Proust, Marcel on love
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"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."

Proust, Marcel on neurosis
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"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."

Proust, Marcel on regret
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"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

Proust, Marcel on childhood
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"Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"The original is unfaithful to the translation."

Borges, Jorge Luis on originality   

"Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility."

Baudelaire, Charles on originality
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"A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily."

Chase, Alexander on familiarity
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"A kiss may ruin a human life."

Wilde, Oscar on kisses and kissing
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"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

Wilde, Oscar on argument
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."

Wilde, Oscar on murder
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"Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong."

Wilde, Oscar on popularity
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"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Sun Tzu on persuasion
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

Sun Tzu on strategies
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"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."

Sun Tzu on secrets   

"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."

Lee, Bruce on reality
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"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

Lee, Bruce on change
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"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."

Lee, Bruce on growth
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"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on memory
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"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on fathers
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"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go."

Bogart, Humphrey on wealth
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"The whole world is about three drinks behind."

Bogart, Humphrey on alcohol and alcoholism   

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri on memory
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"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."

Austen, Jane on judgment and judges
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"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."

Austen, Jane on neighbors
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"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Wilde, Oscar on enemies
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"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

Austen, Jane on work
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"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

Austen, Jane on weather   

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Austen, Jane on neighbors
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