"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

Eliot, George on despair
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on nature
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine."

Levi, Primo on home   

"I do desire we may be better strangers."

Shakespeare, William on anger
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"Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones."

Rokeach, Shalom on zeal   

"Oh what lies lurk in kisses!"

Heine, Heinrich on kisses and kissing
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"I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."

Goldsmith, Oliver on zeal
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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Bergman, Ingrid on kisses and kissing
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"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."

Sidney, Sir Philip on resolution
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"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places."

Twain, Mark on commitment
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"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

Frost, Robert on teacher
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"Abandon all hope, you who enter here!"

Dante Alighieri on hell
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Dyer, Wayne on loneliness
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"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

Updike, John on rain
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad."

Shakespeare, William on madness
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"Nature always tends to act in the simplest way."

Bernoulli on nature   

"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."

Blake, William on resentment
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."

Wilde, Oscar on evangelism
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"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."

Burroughs, William S. on magic
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"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."

Wiesel, Elie on despair
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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!"

Whittier, John Greenleaf on regret
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

Whitman, Walt on loneliness
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"My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."

Wilde, Oscar on individuality
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"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."

Byron, Lord on hope
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"Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners."

Shakespeare, William on power
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Donne, John on infatuation
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on infatuation
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"If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave."

Proverb, American on epitaphs   

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

Allen, James on dream
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"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on night
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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

Hugo, Victor on laughter
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"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on music
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"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people."

Guthrie, Thomas on difficulties
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"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit"

Shakespeare, William on love
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