We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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