"Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths."

Camus, Albert on life
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"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do."

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"The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold."

Boufflers on solitude
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"No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone."

Browne, Jackson on solitude
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."

Byron, Lord on solitude
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"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."

Cecil, Robert on solitude
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"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."

Addison, Joseph on perfection
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"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

Beecher, Henry Ward on perfection
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"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."

Billings, Josh on perfection   

"Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it."

Dali, Salvador on perfection
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"Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Arnauld, Angelique on perfection   

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on perfection
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"Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection
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"Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection
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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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"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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"Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains."

Proverb on fights and fighting
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"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."

Browne, Sir Thomas on hatred
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"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."

Bataille, Georges on love
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"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."

Auvil, Myrtle on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Bible on love
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic 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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"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

Truman, Harry S on government
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"An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on
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"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."

Adler, Alfred on love
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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