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When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day? Anais Nin
/it is the greatest and the talles of trees that the gods bging low with bolds and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves - Herodotus Herodotus
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day."
Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day. Friedrich Nietzsche
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They..."
One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian? Emily Dickinson
Che Guevara quote: "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people..."
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. Che Guevara
Alexis de Tocqueville quote: "men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a..."
men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time. Alexis de Tocqueville
The culture without children is forever immature, self-obsessed and rightous. They cannot help the high opinion they have of themselves; there's no kids around to show them otherwise. James Wilson
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. Don DeLillo
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion. Abraham Lincoln
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries
My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is a kind of action. Graham Greene
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an... Simone de Beauvoir
Clarence Day quote: "Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us,..."
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. Clarence Day
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. Jerome K. Jerome

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