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Alexander Dumas quote: "It is only the dead who do not return."
It is only the dead who do not return. Alexander Dumas
Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that. Edward Abbey
Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the presidency is still 'eternally' held by his adored and departed dad, who died on July 8, 1994, at 82. (The Kim is dead. Long live the Kim.) This makes North Korea the only state in the world with a dead president. What would be the right term for this? A necrocracy? A thanatocracy? A mortocracy? A mausolocracy? Anyway, grimly appropriate for a morbid system so many of whose children have died... Christopher Hitchens
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others Harry S. Truman
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. Victor Hugo
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what..."
We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. C. S. Lewis
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. Kenneth Tynan
he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things. Henry David Thoreau
Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough. Only because we do not know enough. When Science has discovered something more. We shall be happier than we were before. Hilaire Belloc
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only..."
It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky. Chuck Palahniuk
Bette Davis quote: "Success only breeds a new goal"
Success only breeds a new goal Bette Davis
...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt suddenly elated. Though he did not know it, it was the first time that he had experienced, quite undeluted with foreign emotions, the sense of beauty. W. Somerset Maugham
Alan Moore quote: "There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence."
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence. Alan Moore
The colonel nodded. "Our childhood seems so far away now. All this" - he gestured out of the vehicle - "so much suffering. One of our Japanese poets, a court lady many years ago, wrote how sad this was. She wrote of how our childhood becomes like a foreign land once we have grown."Well, Colonel, it's hardly a foreign land to me. In many ways, it's where I've continued to live all my life. It's only now I've started to make my journey from it. Kazuo Ishiguro

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