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Publicist Inspirational Quotes (407)

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Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.
Daniel Defoe
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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.
Heinrich Heine
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My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.
Kelly Cutrone
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A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
Daniel Defoe
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
Daniel Defoe
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No man commits evil for the sake of it even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
Daniel Defoe
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While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
Heinrich Heine
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I do not know the meaning of my sadness there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
Heinrich Heine
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Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
Heinrich Heine
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
Daniel Defoe
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Talk to the press and we'll bury you.
Max Clifford
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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave
Kelly Cutrone
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine
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Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.
Heinrich Heine
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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
Heinrich Heine
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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