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Never Quotes (page 316)

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun. Nick Hornby
God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present. Thomas Merton
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me. Rene Descartes
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable. Douglas Adams
But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires. C. S. Lewis
Harlan Ellison quote: "You must never be afraid to go there."
You must never be afraid to go there. Harlan Ellison
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "I always advise people never to give advice."
I always advise people never to give advice. P. G. Wodehouse
... dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it—all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory. Sigmund Freud
Anne Bronte quote: "What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?"
What business had I to think of one that never thought of me? Anne Bronte
Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known. Your country? I do not know in what latitude it lies. Beauty? I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal. Gold? I hate it as you hate God. Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger? I love the clouds the clouds that pass up there Up there the wonderful clouds! Charles Baudelaire
Sun Tzu quote: "But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come..."
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. Sun Tzu
I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live. Haruki Murakami
Honore de Balzac quote: "Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her..."
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer? Death has never forsaken any man Honore de Balzac
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. John Steinbeck

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