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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Aldous Huxley
Somebody Else Name Author Same Either Iliad Homer
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Aldous Huxley
God Knowledge Sacrifice Only Make Effectively Room
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. Amelia Barr
Spiritual Knowledge Science Feeling Relations Exact About Like Qualities Built Greatness Human Reason Human Relations Vagueness
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is. Amy Tan
You People Compassion Feeling Reading Other Circumstances See About Similar Absolutely Allow Part Feel Read Does How Essential Different Us Inhabit Moment Lives
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you. Amy Tan
You People Otherwise Humour Would Find Ability Some Superficial Makes Survivor Irony Situations Skills Present Resilient
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France
Equality Law Face Rich Steal Majestic Well Beg Labour Bread Which Poor Bridges Streets Sleep
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up. Andy Weir
Work Today Good Better Wait Ending Tomorrow Mind Way See Good Plan Perfect Inspired Come Up Than Plan Your
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. Ann Hood
Grief Beginning Plot Smooth End Middle
Every dogma has its day. Anthony Burgess
Funny Day Every Dogma
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man Responsible Be A Man Precisely
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Great Nature Technology Man Problems Machine More Him Does Isolate Them Deeply
My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. Armistead Maupin
Life Gay Youth Mistake Yourself People Regret Long Damn Too Out Feared About Someone Only Could Make Been Short Being Repressed Loving
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. Arnold Bennett
Great Exactly Rut Advantage Knows Being Where Great Advantage
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy
Day World Way Possible Only She Another Hear Quiet Breathing Her
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Boris Pasternak
Love Marriage Love Is Strong Weakness Only Sacrament Contain Anniversary
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. Boris Pasternak
Wonderful World Saw Would Understood Erupt Wonderful Things Explosion Things
Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards. Brad Thor
Success You Reap Seeds Leaves Same Sow Rewards Clues
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. Charles Dickens
Home Strong Word Stronger Spirit Magician Strongest Spoke Name Answered Than Ever
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. Charles Dickens
You Business Men First Other Rule Would
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens
Wonderful Reflect Every Other Secret Fact Mystery Human Creature Profound
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Charlotte Bronte
Work Silence Would Results Could Obscurity Known Always Efforts If I Could
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. Chuck Palahniuk
Life Truth You Hide Down Addictions About Somehow Write Longer Going Wanted Breaks Your Choose Moment Whole
If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie. Chuck Palahniuk
Better Made Would Had Been Hit Movie Titanic Iceberg Much Zombies
You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you. Chuck Palahniuk
You Eyes People Meet Meeting Constantly See No Idea Entirely Something Disappoint Idea Like Expected Different Them Moment Here
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. Chuck Palahniuk
Communicate Feelings Living Too Others Those Unaware Because Makes Understood Any Artist Lack Afraid Skills Express Expressing
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so. Claire Messud
People Will Live Simply Delusion Because Who
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