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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)
I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.
Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.
What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.
Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?
We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication
I have fielded mothers, whose empowerment can bring the real double engine growth.
I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.
Odisha is a peaceful state; the people will not stand for violence in a democracy.
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.
Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?
Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.
Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.
The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.