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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

- Herman Melville

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She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

- Bram Stoker

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So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

- Nora Ephron

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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

- Anton Chekhov

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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

- Virginia Woolf

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Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

- Orhan Pamuk

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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

- E.M. Forster

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Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.

- Shel Silverstein

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I made an airplane out of stone I always did like staying home.

- Shel Silverstein

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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

- Marianne Williamson

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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

- Quentin Crisp

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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

- James joyce

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