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All Quotes Collection
"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."
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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
58
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
56
"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
43
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
43
"We only understand that which already within us."
48
"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."
49
"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."
42
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
15
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
52
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
40
"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
47
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
23
"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
44
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
72
"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
44
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
13
"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
63
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
51
"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."
165
"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
67
"There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones."
58
"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in."
32
"One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them."
45
"Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence."
48
"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."
42
"His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum."
36
"You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star."
41
"That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends."
36
"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"
46
"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
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