"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

Thought, Behavior, Children, Measure

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Thought, Thoughts, Order, Sin

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Aspirations, Man, Will

"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."

William James, American Philosopher

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"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Thought, Day, Pity

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

George Orwell, British Author

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"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."

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"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."

Love

"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."

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"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."

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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

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"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."

"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."

"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

"Truth disappears with the telling of it."

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."

"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."

"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."

"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."

"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."

"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."