"Let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing."
-- Khalil Gibran
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"Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth."
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
#GiuseppeMazzini #Mazzini #tradition #conscience #soul #truth #love #life #death #books #literature #poems #HenriMartin
"They lie in slumber late, the acrobats;
They sleep and do not know the sun is up."
-- Robert Lax
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"All my days are trances."
-- Edgar Allan Poe
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"An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality."
-- Tom Stoppard
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"A great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place."
-- C. S. Lewis
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"Most of what happens, happens beyond words."
-- Dana Gioia
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"We forget cruelty and past betrayal,
Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall."
-- Robert Graves
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"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
-- William Shakespeare
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"The man who follows nature and not vain opinions is independent in all things."
-- Epicurus
#Epicurus #nature #opinions #independence #love #life #death #Greece #Classics #books #poems #literature #GrandmaMoses
"A creative life is an energetic life."
-- José Ortega y Gasset
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"Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time."
-- John Donne
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"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
-- Henry David Thoreau
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"I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity."
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.'"
-- Hillaire Belloc
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"Then falter not O book, fulfill your destiny."
-- Walt Whitman
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"Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book."
-- John Donne
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"I've never been able to write a happy play, but I've been able to enjoy a happy life."
-- Harold Pinter
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"My heart locks at the knees when it should fall."
-- Jean Clower
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me."
-- Charlotte Brontë
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#Robin #PaschalisDougalis
"The study of beauty is a duel where the artist cries out in terror before being conquered."
-- Charles Baudelaire
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"Our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
-- Jorge Luis Borges
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“The joke is completely lost when the jokester himself laughs."
-- Friedrich Schiller
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"In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded."
-- Thomas Carlyle
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"There is no such thing as an age for love."
-- Paul Bourget
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"There's no tonic like an old friend."
-- Stephen King
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"The way to be happy is to make others so."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
#RobertIngersoll #Ingersoll #love #life #death #happiness #happy #books #poems #literature #GeorgesSeurat #painting #chahut
"When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
-- Agatha Christie
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"Come live with me, and be my love."
-- John Donne
#JohnDonne #love #life #death #sonnets #England #books #poems #literature #KeesVanDongen #painting