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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Julian Barnes quote: "The best form of government is one that is dying, because that..."
The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else. Julian Barnes
You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them. George Bernard Shaw
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. Azar Nafisi
Mark Twain quote: "Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth..."
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living. Mark Twain
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs? not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves. Rollo May
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "The best things in life make you sweaty."
The best things in life make you sweaty. Edgar Allan Poe
Jose Saramago quote: "there are times when it is best to be content with one has, so..."
..there are times when it is best to be content with one has, so as not to lose everything. Jose Saramago
[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can buy. You see it as you wish. An agreeable place to dine; a cosmopolitan village tucked away behind Piccadilly with its own mysterious village life, one of the best shopping centres for food in London, the nastiest and most sordid nursery of crime in Europe. Even the travel journalists, obsessed by its ambiguities, can't make up their minds. P. D. James
Someone once said to me, said Marguerite, that our home, our special country, is where we find liberation. I suppose she meant that it is where our souls find it easiest to escape from self, and it seem to me that it is that way with us when what is about us echoes the best that we are. Elizabeth Goudge
For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to order one's own dinner is not at all bad. Oscar Wilde
Edmund Spenser quote: "Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best."
Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best. Edmund Spenser
George R. R. Martin quote: "The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to..."
The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause. George R. R. Martin
They feared her [the dream beloved], knowing that, being impossible, she was irresistable, and that was why the king loved her best. Salman Rushdie
Kinky Friedman quote: "The best fiction is true."
The best fiction is true. Kinky Friedman

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