A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.


Marty Rubin

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There was existence in oblivion; there is you in oblivion.
PUSHPA RANA
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JOSEPHINE BAKER
I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sense...
JOSEPHINE BAKER
I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sense...
JOSEPHINE BAKER
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JOSEPHINE BAKER
Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?
SORIN CERIN
True fragments of history have re-emerged intact from the oblivion of time and the Earth.
FRANCESCO BURANELLI
I'm chasing oblivion I will never find.
MICHELLE HODKIN
Hard work will rescue you from a life of oblivion
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The move would have put the 108th in limbo. It would have deteriorated and crept into oblivion,
JAMES SAXTON
المنبوذون لا ينسون ابدًا
JODEE BLANCO
If you ignore your own health then you are on a cliffs edge to oblivion if you fall off then their i...
GARY F EVANS...
I had read my way not to knowledge but into an inscrutable oblivion.
SIRI HUSTVEDT
What we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us -...
JOHN GREEN
There will come a time', I said, 'when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when th...
JOHN GREEN
The footprints of great loves will burn forever the flakes of moments, melting the oblivion inside t...
SORIN CERIN
Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion
WILL ROGERS
Oblivion is inevitable
JOHN GREEN
All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivio...
J.D. STROUBE
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are sw...
AL GOLDSTEIN
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
HORACE GREELEY
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Oblivion cures the old wounds.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
Now you go into oblivion.
JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real mast...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real mast...
AUGUSTE RENOIR
Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.
IAN MCEWAN
Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
...panic is a synonym for being; in its delays, in its swerving and rushing syntax, its frantic list...
LOUISE GLüCK
But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for t...
IRVINE WELSH
I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...
JOHN GREEN
Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For
him, oblivio...
CARLTON MELLICK III
And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
JOHN GREEN
It is not possible to mix soul and clay and not get oblivion.
MARIANA FULGER
All men must die.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I’m in love with you, he said quietly.
Augustus, I said.
I am, he said. He was staring a...
JOHN GREEN
Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to de...
JOHN GREEN
Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.
GILLIAN FLYNN
The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to...
PIERRE PéJU
Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow
So death is life's forgetfulness
MIHAI EMINESCU
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes th...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Life turns to Lie when its "F" get lost in oblivion. For majority "F" stands for Fun but for a few e...
ANUJ SOMANY
Your soul, Time, rises and falls, and again rises in my arteries, veins, and my nerves, silencing ob...
MARIANA FULGER
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
PHILIP WYLIE
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into th...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingrati...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Having riches ultimately means having few needs.
J.R. RIM
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
FIONA APPLE
When you get lost in love, you become oblivious to oblivion.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the ...
JOHN GREEN
Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.
SHREYA GUPTA
Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never...
ROSELYNN CANNES, FALLEN
...he'd made friends with the oblivion found in dreamless sleep."
~Aidan
STEPHANIE STAMM
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freed...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
He wasn't physically impotent. So the impotence must lie in his soul. Finding oblivion in a moment's...
CARSTEN JENSEN
Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.
WILLIAM ROSE BENET
What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when...
ZHANG JIE
What do a few lives on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people whe...
ZHANG JIE
Make sure that this embargo stays in effect and drives Castro into oblivion.
DONALD TRUMP
There is wonderful material that's in closets or just has nowhere to go, so it ends up in oblivion, ...
GREGORY MILLS
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading cha...
ANNA SEWARD
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS
There is no better guide to this world than oblivion.
SORIN CERIN
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
ANTOINE RIVAROL
wThere is no better guide to this world than oblivion.
SORIN CERIN
To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the bes...
W.G. SEBALD
The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears.
MELINA MARCHETTA
What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had he...
RICHARD BAXTER
And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.
B...
BETH REVIS
Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries,...
LINDA HOGAN
…everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget — the design of life; and good when w...
DJUNA BARNES
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the lat...
ALFRED MONTAPERT
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the lat...
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
RICHARD M. NIXON
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
MARK TWAIN
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion
MARK TWAIN
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that freque...
DAVID KNOPFLER
Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given t...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, si...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to...
HENRY MILLER
Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to ...
HENRY MILLER
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH
Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH
Those of small minds lead mediocre lives and rush headlong into oblivion.
CHRIS L. ANDREADIS
Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this,...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished: Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'l...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
GEORGE A. SMITH
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...
CLIVE BARKER

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Language is a park where people meet.
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Some people have such good taste they can't enjoy anything.
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Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.
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Mirrors: they show you what you lack, not what you have.
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A poet is someone who never forgets that they were born naked.
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A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
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Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.
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No belief runs more counter to experience than the belief in a benevolent god.
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Water flows because it's willing.
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Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
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Weeds are stubborn. Weeds are independent. Weeds aren't tolerated.
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Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?
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Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
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It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.
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Who gave fire permission to burn?
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A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.
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If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.
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Words of the hero: "I am my fate.
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Morning not only forgives, it forgets.
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It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin.
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Ages and epochs belong to Time. Only the fleeting moment is eternal.
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Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.
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Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.
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There should be a law against doing work one doesn't like or believe in.
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One should show one's scars, not hide them.
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One should approach life as one approaches a lover-naked.
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The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
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It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.
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Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.
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The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.
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The wise oyster stays in its shell.
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All explanations tend to be self-serving.
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What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?
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Never unite in a cause, only in love.
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Diseases are not cured by giving them a name.
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It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
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You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it.
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Don't try to remake the world in your image. That was God's mistake.
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The wind was never angry, the rain was never sad.
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The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.
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The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching.
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Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.
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The least righteous people, and therefore the least dangerous, are the skeptics.
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Lice don't seem so small when they get in your hair.
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What I dread most: having opinions.
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Thirst is a language even the grass understands.
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Never say yes to anything you can't say no to.
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How wonderful life is! How sad to squander it in bitterness, self-loathing and hate!
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Get up and do something; don't think about yourself.
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One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.
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I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.
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You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.
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In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
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Morning will come, it has no choice.
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The last goose in the column is flying just as high.
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I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
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The present moment is always the most important. The present moment is the only one.
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The present moment is always the most important.
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Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
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You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
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My advice to you is to dance while you still can.
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Dance is the art closest to nature.
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One should dance while one still can.
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Al other creatures use their intelligence to survive. We use ours to destroy ourselves.
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Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.
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All talk is small talk.
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There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
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Where the signposts end, the trail begins.
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The solution I always found was to go on living.
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A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.
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All extreme opinions consume themselves.
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Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.
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Events are singular, interpretations plural.
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The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.
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What we write should surprise us, the way life surprises us.
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Be unprepared, that's my motto. Let life surprise you.
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Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.
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Anything but loving is petty.
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More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.
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Disappointments pile up. Then you have to throw them out with the rest of the trash.
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We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
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In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.
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The heart is a silent witness.
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Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it.
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The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.
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There are no ugly things, only ugly thoughts.
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To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.
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Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold
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The answer to every 'why' is to ignore it.
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I can never conceive of yesterday as being anything but behind me.
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Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford.
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We're the slaves of our bodies. We don't have to be the slaves of our minds.
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If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
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A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.
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With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again.
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Even the faded flower denies nothingness.
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The way to my heart is through your heart.
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A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.
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The aphorism-that uneasy compromise between poetry and philosophy.
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The aphorist writes in the gap between poetry and philosophy.
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Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill.
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If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.
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Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.
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It's stupid not to act stupid sometimes.
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Mist around a mountain: all reality is there.
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First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.
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If you can feel it why do you need the words?
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Seize the day, then let it go.
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The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.
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When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not.
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Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.
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The tree that stands so firm on land trembles in the water.
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The water is always deeper than what it reflects.
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The only way to live well is to feel intensely.
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Optimists think badly, but live well.
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Leisure is not always relaxation and it is relaxation that counts.
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What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art.
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It is better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.
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It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.
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Better Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas.
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Batter Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas.
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Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive.
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A long leash is not freedom.
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When the train stays on the tracks you don't ask why.
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No explanation is ever as good as not having one.
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The earth keeps turning but it never says why.
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The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.
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The deep roots never doubt spring will come.
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If you're in the fault-finding business you'll find me full of faults.
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Money isn't everything but you'll never convince money.
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The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.
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Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.
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Propriety is a poor substitute for desire.
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Leisure isn't always relaxation and it's relaxation that counts.
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Freedom is the kite's response to the wind.
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Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
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Love hates to be cross-examined. Question love, and it runs away.
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You can't dissect a dream without killing it.
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The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.
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Dissatisfaction: the feeling that something is missing when nothing is missing.
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There ought to be a law against people doing work they don't like or believe in.
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Life goes nowhere. We are the ones who have tried to get somewhere and made a mess of life.
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To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.
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An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.
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Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.
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Meddling is the evil, not indifference.
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You can always count on God to do nothing.
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Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.
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It's indifference that breaks hearts, not love.
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Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.
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The healthiest kind of love leaves room for indifference.
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You need spirit, fire, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
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You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
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I feel a vast indifference toward everything that is not love.
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No one tells the truth about indifference. Indifference is the next best thing to love.
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Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.
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Fortune favors the nonchalant.
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Ease is the sign of grace in everything.
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The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.
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There is more chance than choice in our decisions.
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Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.
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The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.
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It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt.
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The waterfall winks at every passerby.
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The defects of our youth sustain us in old age.
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Grace rides inside the waves.
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The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
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You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
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Intellectualism is trivial compared to affairs of the heart.
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A chain grows weaker with each new link.
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