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Romanist Inspirational Quotes (37)

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At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?
André Aciman
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All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
André Aciman
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That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
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Communism is the flower of idleness.
George Ticknor
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In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
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Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
Randle Cotgrave
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To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Erich Auerbach
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Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
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If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?
Mario Pei
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Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
Isaac Goldberg
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What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?
Michel Serres
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Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.
André Aciman
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
Isaac Goldberg
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And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.
André Aciman
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One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of any of these language activities, you run across words whose meaning or use baffles you, don't by-pass them. Look them up in the dictionary and familiarize yourself with them.
Mario Pei
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Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman
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As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers
André Aciman
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A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.
Isaac Goldberg
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Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
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Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young...or the old.
André Aciman
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American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.
Revilo P. Oliver
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