We speak the truth because we live in truth.
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Unknown
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
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George Orwell
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad, " replied Martin.
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Voltaire
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the...
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Wendell Berry
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.
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Lian Hearn
More Quotes By Ivan Turgenev
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack.. The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to...
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
It’s strange how things happen in life: you live with someone for a long time, you are on the best of terms, yet you never once speak to them frankly and from the heart; with someone else, you’ve hardly even got acquainted - and there...
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
That's what children are for–that their parents may not be bored.
