July 2012
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to...
– Nikos Kazantzakis from Zorba the Greek
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Sometimes you can’t realize you’re in a bad mood until another...
– Douglas Coupland
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Why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?
– Rafik Schami
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring...
– William Golding
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what...
– Douglas Coupland
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
– Douglas Coupland
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
– Franz Kafka
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve...
– Luigi Pirandello
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Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a...
– Eugene O’Neill
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So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet smelling house of the rind,...
– Pablo Neruda
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not...
– Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than...
– Roddy Doyle
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Soul is a verb.
– David Mitchell
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My solitude shall be my company
and my poverty, my wealth.
– Matsuo Basho
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When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.
– Kim So-wol
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not...
– P G Wodehouse
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This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key...
– Michael Ondaatje
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Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off.
Rely...
– Natsume Soseki
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
– Goethe
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
– James Joyce
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
– Chinua Achebe
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We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of - but we never love again.
– Jerome K Jerome
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Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.
– Bill Bryson
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Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
– Jean Racine
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
– William Faulkner
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Unknown
It's not the gods
But our own hearts
We need to fear.
The evil starts
Against all odds
Not there but here.
--Vikram Seth
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She had a passion for people who did things well.
– Michael Bulgakov
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Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice.
– Tim Kreider