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Prosaist Inspirational Quotes (18187)

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Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.
Richard Bach
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Marcel Proust
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de Balzac
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Better to dream than to be.
Fernando Pessoa
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Mark Twain
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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
Mark Twain
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All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.
Valery Bryusov
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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Mark Twain
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House of Leaves is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but its also about recovering from fear.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.
Marcel Proust
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I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.
Robert McCloskey
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True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
Anton Chekhov
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw
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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
Oscar Wilde
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Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.
Dan Brown
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
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People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
Julian Fellowes
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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Honore de Balzac
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.
Stefan Zweig
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
Oscar Wilde
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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
Arthur Miller
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