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Intellectual Inspirational Quotes (737)

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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
Samuel Beckett
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
Samuel Beckett
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
Dante Alighieri
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It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
Samuel Beckett
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All of nature is God's art.
Dante Alighieri
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
Samuel Beckett
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That penny farthing hell you call your mind
Samuel Beckett
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Samuel Beckett
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God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
Samuel Beckett
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
Naguib Mahfouz
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emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
Jean-Paul Sartre
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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
Dante Alighieri
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
Samuel Beckett
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