"There was an emptiness about the heart of life, an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe."

Society, School, Friendship, Class, Education

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"There was an emptiness about the heart of life, an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe."

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

John Green, American Author

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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

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"Take responsibility for the city."

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"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."

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"When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read."

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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Nature

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

Nature

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

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"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

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"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."

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"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

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"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."

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"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

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"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Man

"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."

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