"God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist."

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"God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist."

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David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

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"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."

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"Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,Assumes control of fate's immortal loom."

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"As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work."

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"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

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"Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long."

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"Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity."

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"Once someone asked, when I was present, what constituted the greatest pleasure in love. Someone replied, naturally: in receiving. Another: in giving. Someone said: the pleasure of pride! someone else: the ecstasy of humility! All these muckers making like the Imitation of Christ. Finally, an impudent utopian was found who insisted that the greatest pleasure of love was in forming new citizens for the fatherland. Me, I said: what is uniquely, supremely voluptuous about love lies in the certainty of doing evil."

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"To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing."

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"How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less."

Success

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

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