"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence."

Beauvoir, Simone De on marriage
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"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on attitude
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"He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on fashion   

"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on family
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on attitude
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Nin, Anais on friends and friendship
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"Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."

Dietrich, Marlene on sex
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"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."

Dietrich, Marlene on women
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"There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing."

Dietrich, Marlene on laughter
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"

Bergson, Henri L. on change
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

Aurelius, Marcus on losers and losing
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"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."

Buddha on change
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"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on purpose
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow."

Proverb, Norwegian on laziness
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"Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy."

Proverb, German on laziness
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"Sloth is the key to poverty."

Proverb on laziness
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one."

Nabokov, Vladimir on life
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"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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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues."

Balzac, Honore De on women
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

Astaire, Fred on age and aging
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Arden, Elizabeth on age and aging
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"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

Ali, Muhammad on age and aging
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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

Cocteau, Jean on addiction
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on love
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"The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life."

Miller, Henry on art
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"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

Miller, Henry on passion
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"The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."

Miller, Henry on prison
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"An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

Miller, Henry on solitude
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"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."

Miller, Henry on life
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"Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much good? How much joy?"

Miller, Henry on censorship
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"Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!"

Miller, Henry on vision   

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

Miller, Henry on travel   

"The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him."

Miller, Henry on talent
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"Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us."

Miller, Henry on taboos
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