You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and...
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Oscar Wilde
But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of...
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Alan W. Watts
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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Jasper Fforde
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
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Albert Einstein
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
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George R.r. Martin
More Quotes By Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart, / when he himself, among the sinners, / is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
They tell me, shaking their heads:" You should be kinder. You are somehow furious". I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.
No one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.
