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 Thomas A Kempis
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
If you bear the cross unwillingly you make it a burden and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
If you cast away one cross you will certainly find another and perhaps a heavier.
All His glory and beauty come from within and there He delights to dwell His visits there are frequent His conversation sweet His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.
It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
