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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Feeling Heart Heart Broken Marvelous Myself Thinking
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Flow Freedom Himself Old Person Soul Writing
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Goodness Guest Humor Meet People Sincere Speed
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Beautiful Character Dress Face People Thinking Way
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Curiosity Marriage Myself Observation People
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Black Color Deep Life Mourning Myself
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice

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