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3818 English Quotes

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Important Questions Life Oneself
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist

Definition God Freedom Exist
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Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.

Death Nature Form Immortal
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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

Poetry Emergency Justification
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Write Poems Poets Words
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Want Things Decent Human being
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live

Characters Events Begin Live
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society
People Illusion Live Society
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The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Ordinary man Curse Civilization
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The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

Dead Live Love
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

Risk Death Night Live
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You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form

You Act Believe Boasting
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

Wolves Hunt Lone Myth
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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Art Murder Words Heart
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The world began in hazard and will end in it.

World Began Hazard End
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There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.

Reasons Write Create World
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Tragedy Man Courage Good
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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

Fight Selfishness Brutality Shame
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The best wines take the longest to mature.

Best Longest Mature
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.

Profoundest Distances Geographical
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Duty Pretending Trivial Critical
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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

Trouble Life Everyone Mystery
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Duty Greatest Evil Good
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...there are times when silence is a poem.

Times Silence Poem
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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Wealth Learn Control Financially
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Races Planet Intelligent Stupid
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Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time Road Room
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Science disembodies; art embodies.

Science Art Embodies
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Death is the room that is always empty.

Death Room Empty
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There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

True Leisure World Equally
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The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Privileges Knowledge Cost Ignorance
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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

Marriages Passion Destroy Want
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Love Mystery People Identity
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Follow Love Flee
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We only part to meet again.

We Part Meet
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She who has never loved has never lived.

Never Loved Lived
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise

Fools Envy Praise
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On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

Choice Friends Good Evil names
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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Forget Remember Involve Understand
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A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

Man Afraid Woman Loves
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My Own Epitaph Life's a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it

Life's Show it Thought Know
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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse

Foe Prove Curse Friend
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

Dependence Sure Self
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save

Cowards Cruel Brave Love
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You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

You Called Hypocrite Judge
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Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

Love Power Heart Health
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Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

Youth's Joys Love Duty
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Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Talks much Vain
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One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Fate Prove Envy Love
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A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

Woman's Friendship Ends Love
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