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I understand what you mean, and I believe in this girl. Anyone you love must be marvellous, and any girl that has the effect you describe must be fine and noble. To spiritualise one's age--that is something worth doing. If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your... Oscar Wilde
Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions. Joseph Conrad
Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
David Foster Wallace quote: "As each person's sandal hits the pier, a sociolinguistic..."
As each person's sandal hits the pier, a sociolinguistic transformation from cruiser to tourist is effected. David Foster Wallace
ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority. Stanley Milgram
Hippocrates quote: "There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one..."
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance. Hippocrates
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country. Hubert H. Humphrey
Diogenes quote: "The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to..."
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man. Diogenes
I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness. Dean Koontz
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire') Gerard Manley Hopkins
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot
At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so. Roger Ebert
I lie and repeat these words over to myself, and find that they are capital. Little by little others come and fit themselves to the preceding ones. I grow keenly wakeful. I get up and snatch paper and pencil from the table behind my bed. It was as if a vein had burst in me ; one word follows another, and they fit themselves together harmoniously with telling effect. Scenes piles on scene, actions and speeches bubble up in my brain, and a wonderful sense of pleasure empowers me. I write as one... Knut Hamsun
Mary Wollstonecraft quote: "They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its..."
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent. Mary Wollstonecraft
Alexander Dumas quote: "joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us..."
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. Alexander Dumas

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