You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating...
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Alexandre Dumas
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Richard Bach
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
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P.g. Wodehouse
Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes...
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Alexandre Dumas
More Quotes By Edward O. Wilson
There is no better high than discovery.
People would rather believe than know.
I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.
Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve...