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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot


Salvador Dalí

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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
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RAINER MARIA RILKE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
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NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— an...
SALVADOR DALí I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
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BRANDON SANDERSON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
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LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
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And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
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ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
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TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
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EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
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ARVIND YADAV I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
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