'Nothing is sharper than suffering;
Nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.'
-- Meister Eckhart

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'Truth is the only daughter of time.'
-- Leonardo da Vinci

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'Man is the novelist of himself -- whether he be an original or a plagiarist.'
-- José Ortega y Gasset

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'Promise is most given when the least is said.'
-- George Chapman

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'Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.'
-- Robert Browning

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'A gun gives you the body, not the bird.'
-- Henry David Thoreau

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'The evening of life should witness that there had been work during the day.'
-- Søren Kierkegaard

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'The only way to keep any dream or fantasy intact is never to try to live it out.'
-- Amos Oz

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'We are never deceived; we only deceive ourselves.'
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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'Great artists have no homeland.'
-- Alfred de Musset

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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
-- Richard Steele

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'Soon fades the spell,
Soon comes the night.'
-- Thomas Macaulay

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'I created you while I was happy.'
-- Constantine Cavafy

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'My music is best understood by children and animals.'
-- Igor Stravinsky

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'Be careful choosing your enemies --
Because in the end you will resemble them.'
-- Jorge Luis Borges

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'When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.'
-- Theodore Woodward

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'Absence of occupation is not rest.'
-- William Cowper

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'Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship.'
-- Willa Cather

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'The Caesars in my heart
Tell me how all infamy is possible.'
-- Delmore Schwartz

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'Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.'
- Vladimir Nabokov

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