We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWhatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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