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The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. Tom Stoppard
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. H. G. Wells
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of..."
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected..."
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams. Alfred Rosenberg
August Wilhelm von Schlegel quote: "Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the..."
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
George Orwell quote: "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and..."
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing. Robertson Davies
Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it. Elizabeth Goudge
The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute.... Stephen King
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach. Isaac Asimov
With slouch and swing around the ring. We trod the Fool? Parade! We did not care: we knew we were. The Devil? Own Brigade: And shaven head and feet of lead. Make a merry masquerade. Oscar Wilde
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows. W. H. Auden
Anton Chekhov quote: "I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered,..."
I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women? Anton Chekhov

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