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Octavio Paz quote: "Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man..."

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

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Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to understand how he could have yielded to an impulse of happiness at such a time, he confined himself, in a habitual gesture of his whenever a difficult question came to his mind, to passing his hand over his forehead, wiping his eyes and the lenses of his lorgnon. Yet he could not be consoled for the death of his wife, but, during the two years he survived her, would say to my... Marcel Proust
Leonard Cohen quote: "I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My..."
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. Leonard Cohen
We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us. Steve Irwin
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on. Patrick White
It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer. Agatha Christie
Jack Vance quote: "I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. Jack Vance
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By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum. Steve Albini
One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them. Tom Felton
King Charles V quote: "Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too..."
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. King Charles V
I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it. Kevin Richardson
This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes. Chris Tucker
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized. Roger Bannister
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now. Boris Becker
William Stephenson quote: "We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance."
We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance. William Stephenson
Helen Gurley Brown quote: "good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere"
good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere Helen Gurley Brown