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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Being, Feeling, Words

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Being, Opponents

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Being, Man, Security, Wit

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

Being, Man, Woman

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Being, Books

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Being, Pleasure

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

Being,

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Being, Giving, Man, World

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Being, Nothing, Respect

Explore more quotes by Goran Persson

"Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe."

Joy

"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."

Church

"We must make working life more human."

Life

"It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved."

Peace

"We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance."

Will

"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."

Optimism

"Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone."

Burden

"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."

Humanity

"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."

Being