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We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility. Margaret Atwood
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem. Thomas Mann
She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But if there were somewhere a being strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of exaltation and refinement, a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah! How impossible! Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it;... Gustave Flaubert
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitaable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles R. Swindoll
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. Jane Austen
Rumi quote: "Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks..."
Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. Rumi
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth. Boris Pasternak
Juan Ramon Jimenez quote: "Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that..."
Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. Juan Ramon Jimenez
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often. George Bernard Shaw
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip. Henry Miller
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words. Vladimir Nabokov
To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive. Frederick Buechner
Victor Hugo quote: "There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad..."
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers. Victor Hugo
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman) Dashiell Hammett
Leo Tolstoy quote: "The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones."
The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. Leo Tolstoy

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