"He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

Kipling, Rudyard on quotations
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"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

Frank, Anne on nature
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"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

Pound, Ezra on despair   

"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."

Strindberg, J. August on love
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"People usually are the happiest at home."

Shakespeare, William on home
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"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."

Delillo, Don on rain
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

Blake, William on nature
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"Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain."

Selden, John on pain
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"There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

Carroll, Lewis on knowledge
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"When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is."

Wilde, Oscar on money
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"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."

Frost, Robert on autumn
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"In time we hate that which we often fear."

Shakespeare, William on fear
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"Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order."

Byron, Lord on focus
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"But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder."

Cohen, Leonard on childhood   

"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on dissent
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"There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see."

Frost, Robert on grave   

"I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out. About breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged."

Kalman, Maira on   

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Saroyan, William on life
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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Weil, Simone on oppression
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"A king should die on his feet."

Louis XVIII on kings   

"People change and forget to tell each other."

Hellman, Lillian on   

"Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell."

Shakespeare, William on farewells
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"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"

Aeschylus on pain
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on relationship
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"I Carry your heart. (I carry it in my heart)."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on   

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

Benjamin, Walter on relationship
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"Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?"

Reagan, Ronald on humankind   

"God must love the common man, he made so many of them."

Lincoln, Abraham on humankind
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"The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last."

Wilde, Oscar on anxiety
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"Appearances are deceptive."

Aesop on appearance
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"Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him."

Barrie, Sir James M. on men
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"Go away...I'm alright."

Wells, H.G. on famous last words
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"Our best thoughts come from others."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on quotations
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