"No one ever became great by imitation."

Johnson, Samuel on greatness
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"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eloquence
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"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on vulgarity
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"An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition."

Unknown, Source on intuition   

"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intuition
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"The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on gold
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"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on growth
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""The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly." "

Apoorve Dubey on inspirational,   

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on experience
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on funerals
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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!"

Rink, Henry on reputation   

"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity."

White, William Allen on insanity
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Kafka, Franz on understanding
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"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."

Fuller, Thomas on travel
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"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on genius
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."

Adams, Joey Lauren on genius
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."

Dryden, John on genius
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"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on genius
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"Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night."

Wilde, Oscar on despair
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on insanity
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

Artaud, Antonin on insanity
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"Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me."

Cowper, William on insanity   

"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."

Emmons, Nathaniel on insanity
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"Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane."

Unknown, Source on insanity
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"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will."

Artaud, Antonin on suicide
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."

Camus, Albert on suicide
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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

Cioran, E. M. on suicide
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"Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or broken heart, is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one."

Gillman, Charlotte P. on suicide
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

Milton, John on mind
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis on solitude
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"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."

Carlyle, Thomas on solitude
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"The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on solitude
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