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1625 Essayist Quotes

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Conversation Been difficult Times Had nobody
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Impossible Withhold education Receptive mind Force
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Clear sighted Rule The world Console it
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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Really love Anybody Never laugh
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Tourist May complain Be lost
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

We learn Conversation Enriches us Elation
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Laughter springs Lawless part Our nature
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Objectionable Naked truth
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

The diseases Present Have Common
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Democracy Forever teases Contract Ideals
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Pleasure Man Really lives His leisure
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The truth was much more beautiful

The truth Much more Beautiful
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From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.

The beginning Sensation Marvelous presupposes Faith
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How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man.
How hard To become Man again Has ceased
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Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Adolescence Unanswerable Innocence Insolence
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It was probable, I thought, that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me, and that the whole world was mad.

Disliked World Mad Thought
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The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Paintings Relation Prayers Vision
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How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

Vulgar Portents Prodiies Religious
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Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Think Adultery Filthy habit
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Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Evil Laughter Co-exist
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Live Vanity Unreasonable Mortification
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There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless".

Reciprocity Men Women Love
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. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

Cook Imagination Cheerful Mind
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Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Our Hope Off-chance God
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Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Men War Wandered Women
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Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Optimism Last Resort Despair
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when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Person Implores Reasonable View
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Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Phrase Books Universal Eternal
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death Enemy Everything Alright
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.

Actor Athlete Heart
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
Conceive Work Art Existence
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

Abandon Myself Dreams Search
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Life consists of burning up questions.

Life Consists Burning Questions
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

Work Confines Realm Unique
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

True Language Incomprehensible Chatter
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Without Sarcasm Sink Chaos
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written Poetry Reading Destroyed
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Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Everything Every moment Alive
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Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

Just remember Kid Can quicker Get back
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Be seduced Into thinking Make A profit
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Betrayal Only truth That sticks
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Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

An hour Devil fell God thought Beautiful
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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Life Woman God's most Precious gift
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I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it

I speak Own sins Judge another No tongue
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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

I realized Ridiculous lie Whole life
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Can't eat Orange Peel away A man
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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Child's spirit Can never Catch it Stand still
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If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.

You believe That life Worth living Will create
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A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

A character Defined Challenges Cannot walk
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Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

Peace A providence Great change
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