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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. Henry Fielding
Fruit Money Evil Often Root
On an exhausted field, only weeds grow. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Exhausted Field Only Weeds Grow
It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville
Down Never True Any Places Map
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. Herman Melville
Love Mind Wild Through Provinces May Conquest March
Write a page a day. It will add up. Herman Wouk
Day Will Add Write Up Page
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. Hermann Hesse
Morning Joy Sky Pure Long Clothes Too Saw Neighboring High Window Finest Seemed Through Had Put Over Cheerfully Occasion Houses Blue Full Plans Special Bright
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. Hermann Hesse
Better Everything Ourselves Wills Someone Knows Within Does Than Us Who
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Hermann Hesse
Made Creation Savior Spirit Individual Crucified Flesh Whole Each Each Individual Each One Suffers
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere. Hermann Hesse
Knowledge Learning Believe Everything Everywhere We Cannot My Friend Something Only Call Friend Essence Cannot
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. Hermann Hesse
Faith History Chaos Retaining Study Study History Nevertheless Order Meaning Means
One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to. Herta Muller
Adapting Destroyed Refusing Either
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. Honore de Balzac
Words Sign Sure Sure Sign Duplicity Flow
Finance, like time, devours its own children. Honore de Balzac
Finance Time Own Like Children
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac
Art Religion History Humanity Passion Would Would-Be Without Novels
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. Honore de Balzac
Good Yourself Nothing Others Ease Impediment Good Terms Terms Greater Than Being Ill
Love is a game in which one always cheats. Honore de Balzac
Love Game Love Is Cheats Always Which
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. Honore de Balzac
Youth Intelligence Passion Fools Insight Give Observed Sort Idiots Brings
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. Honore de Balzac
Life You Mother Fears Long Dramas See Tender Hour Joys Terrible Succession Now Soft
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. Honore de Balzac
Husband First Lover Other Way Runs Himself Mistress Always His Second Thinks
What is art? Nature concentrated. Honore de Balzac
Art Nature Concentrated
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. Honore de Balzac
Alone Woman Beauty Console Dear Loss Children Loving Her
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre. Howard Jacobson
Me You Will Job Prison Every Unacceptable Out Idea Indoctrination Ideological Camp Person Where Hold Happens Which Centre Show Who University
People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic. Howard Jacobson
Life Funny You Sense Of Humor People Humor Sense Think Because Tragic Often Appalling
To assert that antisemitism is unlike other racisms is not to claim a privilege for it. Hating a Jew is no worse than hating anyone else. Howard Jacobson
Other Else Unlike Worse Claim Hating Privilege Than Anyone Anyone Else Assert Jew
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. Irvine Welsh
People Money Job Nine-To-Five Worry Job Security Security About Stuff Lot
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. Irvine Welsh
Time You Humanity People Sometimes Frame Extreme Circumstance See Putting Over Because Always Time Frame Person Short Short Time Them Watching Position
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