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Multatuli quote: "One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes..."
One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture Multatuli
Tessa fought down an impulse to snap. Colin had a habit of making sweeping judgments based on first impressions, on single actions. He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own. J. K. Rowling
When I die. I'm sure. I will have a. Big Funeral. Curiosityseekers... coming to seeif Iam really. Deador justtrying to make. Trouble. Mari Evans
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively. Socrates
The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." 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 too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like... Azar Nafisi
If someone loves a flower of which there is only one on the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy when he looks at them for he can say to himself: "My flower is somewhere out there ... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If I seem a little bizarre, remember the wild profusion of my inheritance...perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. Salman Rushdie
Answer this: A thousand years from now, will it matter what title the world gave you? No, but it will make a literal hell of a difference whose child you are. Max Lucado
Cease partiicipation, if only for one day this year --- if only to make sure that we don't lose forever the rare and vanishing human talent of appreciating ease. Elizabeth Gilbert
It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so. Ayn Rand
Anna took a knife and fork in her beautiful, white, ring-adorned hands and began to demonstrate. She obviously could see that her explanation could not make anything understood, but, knowing that her speech was pleasant and her hands were beautiful, she went on explaining. Leo Tolstoy
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hayao Miyazaki quote: "I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be..."
I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive Hayao Miyazaki
Virginia Woolf quote: "Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us..."
Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds... Virginia Woolf
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to... Virginia Woolf

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