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Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
Michael J. Gelb
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I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.
George Orwell
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oscar Wilde
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Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
Alexander Pushkin
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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
Alexander Pushkin
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
Alexander Pushkin
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Alexander Pushkin
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Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
Alexander Pushkin
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
Alexander Pushkin
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Alexander Pushkin
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
Alexander Pushkin
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In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
Alexander Pushkin
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To love all ages yield surrender But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
Alexander Pushkin
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
Alexander Pushkin
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
Alexander Pushkin
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
Alexander Pushkin
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
Alexander Pushkin
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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
Alexander Pushkin
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
Alexander Pushkin
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If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
Noam Chomsky
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berger
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Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.
Susan Sontag
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Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
Leo Tolstoy
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Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.
Leo Tolstoy
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