"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."

Eliot, T. S. on Evil
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"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."

Eliot, T. S. on Reality
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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Eliot, T. S. on Pride
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"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you."

Eliot, T. S. on Power
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"Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it."

Eliot, T. S. on Past
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"All cases are unique and very similar to others."

Eliot, T. S. on Originality
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"You are the music while the music lasts."

Eliot, T. S. on Music
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"Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter."

Eliot, T. S. on Love
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"Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you."

Brooke, Rupert on Admiration
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on Insanity
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on Insanity
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Insanity
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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on Certainty
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"He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

Kipling, Rudyard on Quotations
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"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

Kipling, Rudyard on Patience
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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors."

Kipling, Rudyard on Anxiety
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"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

Manson, Charles on Insanity
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Frost, Robert on Love
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"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on Argument
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."

Frost, Robert on Home
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

Frost, Robert on Hell
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"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

Frost, Robert on Acceptance
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"There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see."

Frost, Robert on Grave
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on Difficulties
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on Epitaphs
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"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."

Frost, Robert on Autumn
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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Frost, Robert on Books - Reading
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on Books - Reading
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"Books succeed, and lives fail."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Books - Reading
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"He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes."

Barrow on Books - Reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on Books - Reading
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"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."

Frost, Robert on Universe
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"Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out."

Gomez-Arcos, Agustin on Winter
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."

Proverb, English on Experience
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"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

Picasso, Pablo on Taste
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"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."

Schulz, Charles M. on Present
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"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."

Ovid on Night
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"And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Night
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"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel."

Johnson, Samuel on Night
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"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on Night
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