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Sir Thomas More
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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Dean Koontz
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.
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Robert Henri
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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Oscar Levant
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
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Henry Miller
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
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Margery Cuyler
I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.
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William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!
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G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Nadine Stair
If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
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Socrates, Apology, (Plato)
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
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General Douglas McArthur
The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!!!
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George Santayna
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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