"You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can."

Thoreau, Henry David on people
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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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"In solitude, where we are least alone."

Byron, Lord on solitude
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on experience
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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh."

Twain, Mark on happiness
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."

Thoreau, Henry David on death
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"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough."

Twain, Mark on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively."

Dyer, Wayne on anger
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"The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice."

Byron, Lord on home
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"My friends, there are no friends."

Chanel, Coco on friends and friendship   

"Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down."

Huntingdon, Collis P. on possessions   

"We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable."

James, William on life   

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on desire
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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

Fuller, Thomas on life
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"Sorrow makes us children again."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sorrow
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"If I look confused it is because I am thinking."

Goldwyn, Samuel on thoughts and thinking
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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on enthusiasm   

"I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face."

Mansfield, Katherine on weather   

"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."

Eliot, T. S. on insanity
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

Carroll, Lewis on self discovery
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"Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you."

Brooke, Rupert on admiration
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"I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged."

Dunaway, Faye on solitude   

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on epitaphs
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"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on misfortunes
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"There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Orwell, George on equality
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"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

Wordsworth, William on nature
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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

Williams, Tennessee on suspicion
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"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."

Levant, Oscar on loneliness
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