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He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again." Kathy sighed. "I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude?"No." She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? "No one special."If they're not special, what would the point be? Nora Roberts
The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view. Jane Austen
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills. Jorge Luis Borges
Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions was impossible; that one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself. But he had done neither the one nor the other, yet he continued to live, think, and feel, had even at that very time got married,... Leo Tolstoy
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut... Philip K. Dick
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs. Leo Tolstoy
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any..."
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a..."
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. Henry David Thoreau
One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smote, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb. Stephen Crane
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations... William Makepeace Thackeray
Ayn Rand quote: "What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with..."
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. Ayn Rand
There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life. Edith Wharton
Ayn Rand quote: "Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst..."
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. Ayn Rand
Joseph Smith, Jr. quote: "A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge"
A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge Joseph Smith, Jr.
Charles Bukowski quote: "Never trust a man in a jumpsuit"
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit Charles Bukowski

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