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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love Together Looking Other Gazing Consist Direction Outward Does Same Same Direction Each
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway
Love You Trips Never Go Anyone
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy
Myself Me Man Wish Sorry Sit Others Assure Back Ease Possible Carry Except Him Making Am His Lot Off Very Getting Means Choking
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. Honore de Balzac
Legal Spider Big Web Laws Through Pass Caught Get Which Little Flies
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach
Happiness You Problem Somebody Else Guess Does Depends Your
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. Richard Bach
Enough Argue Sure Limitations Your Yours
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley
People Sets Other Propagandist Purpose Make Forget Human Certain Set
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happiness Joy True Happiness True New Well Well Done Done Creating Deeds Zest Things
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka
You World Wait Will Solitary No Choice Table Remain Simply Freely Feet Ecstasy Still Leave Itself Offer Quiet Roll Sitting Listen Room Choice Your Even Need
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good. Margaret Atwood
Good You Evoke Evoking About Something Writers Between Call Reader Clinical Up Quite Difference Describe Describing
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing Add More Take Perfection Left Achieved Away
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Time Too Late Never Too Late Action Too Late Something Never Now
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens
Construction Before Creation Exactly Only Constructed Between Exists Difference After Loved Created Whole Thing
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. George Sand
Experience Genius World Simplicity Difficult Secure Most Most Difficult Thing Limit Effort Thing Last Difficult Thing
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
Truth You Mad Shall Know Make
Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself. Elie Wiesel
Will Group Herself Everyone Hates Hating Someone Himself Ultimately End Up Who
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte
Love Made Whatever Our Mine Souls His Same
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
People Never Most Talk Listen
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. J. R. R. Tolkien
Life Death You Wise Live Too Out See Some Give Judgement Deal Very Die Ends Cannot Them Then Many Even Deserve Eager
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray
Thoughts Man Lying Pen Thousand Write He Takes Know Within Does Till Up
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. Charlotte Bronte
Hope Dreams Broken Silence Thoughts Heart Human Heart Secret Pleasures Hidden Hopes Charms Revealed Were Human Sealed Whose Treasures Kept
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway
War Matter Crime Think Never How Nor Justified Necessary
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin
Good Listening Imitate Never Failed Been Very Children Them Elders
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy
Art Feeling Handicraft Artist Experienced Transmission
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Emile Zola
Work Art Gift Nothing Without Artist
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Charles Dickens
Soul Communication Will Be Brave Face Someone Never True Another Encourages Person Brave Substitute Electric Who
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