"I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky."

Wilde, Oscar on sky
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"When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty."

Gregory The Great, St. on blush
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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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 art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster."

Bishop, Elisabeth on losers and losing   

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane."

Jennings, Waylon on insanity
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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"Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a God; look straight at me and you see yourself."

Manson, Charles on perspective
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God."

Lincoln, Abraham on sky
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"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on self-interest   

"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves."

Whichcote, Benjamin on selfishness
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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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"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."

Kafka, Franz on kisses and kissing
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"A kiss may ruin a human life."

Wilde, Oscar on kisses and kissing
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This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"It is we that are blind, not fortune."

Browne, Sir Thomas on eyes   

"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on eyes
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"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."

Addison, Joseph on beauty
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"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

Shaw, George Bernard on art
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