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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh.
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W. H. Auden |
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
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Virgil |
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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Titus Maccius Plautus |
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun |
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun |
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun |
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun |
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
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Stephane Mallarme |
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
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Stanislaw Lec |
A lie never lives to be old.
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Sophocles |
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
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Sidney Lanier |
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Samuel Butler |
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Saadi |
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Robert Browning |
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
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Richard Armour |
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
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Hesiod |
Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.
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Herman Gorter |
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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George Byron |
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
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Franz Kafka |
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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Franz Kafka |
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