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“I know a lot of wonderful men married to pills, and I know a lot of pills married to wonderful women. So one shouldn’t judge that way.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Family
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“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Family
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“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Family
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“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Boredom
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“You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Parenting
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“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”

Barbara Bush
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Appreciation

“Macho doesn’t prove mucho.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Men
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“A man in love is incomplete until he has married — then he’s finished.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Family
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“You never really know a man until you have divorced him.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Divorce
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“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Divorce
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“Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Divorce

“A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Family
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“The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Racism? But isn’t it only a form of misanthropy?”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What should I say about life? That it’s long and abhors transparence.”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“How delightful to find a friend in everyone.”

Joseph Brodsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Friendship

“Ordinary People … are so used to be dazled [sic] with Riches, that they pay as much Deference to the Understanding of a Man of an Estate, as of a Man of Learning; and are very hardly brought to regard any Truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several Men of five hundred a Year who do not believe it.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, ’till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an Author.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Prejudice
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“[W]e are all guilty in some Measure of the same narrow way of Thinking … when we fancy the Customs, Dresses, and Manners of other Countries are ridiculous and extravagant, if they do not resemble those of our own.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Tolerance
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“Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Friendship
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“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Friendship
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“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music
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“I should prefer a Woman that is agreeable in my own Eye, and not deformed in that of the World, to a celebrated Beauty. If you marry one remarkably beautiful, you must have a violent Passion for her, or you have not the proper Taste of her Charms; and if you have such a Passion for her, it is odds but it will be imbittered with Fears and Jealousies.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“See in what peace a Christian can die.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Contentment
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“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Confidence
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“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.”

Joseph Addison
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time

“For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Destiny
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“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Inspirational
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“Love is a friendship set to music.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Passion
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“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“Follow your bliss.”

Joseph Campbell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Dream

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Thinking
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“For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Ideas
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“To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Excellence
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“I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Effort

“Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great desire of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more–the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort–to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires–and expires, too soon, too soon–before life itself.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
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“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Courage
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“A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Secrets
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“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Peace
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“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Memory
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“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Military
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“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Illusion
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“A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.”

Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humor

“You can say the opposite of something you’ve said but you can’t do the opposite of something you’ve done.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Theology is the logic of the Devil.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“The barometer that shows “variable” is an ironic indictment of God.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Who learns most from a good book is the author.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“In French literature, you can choose “à la carte”; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“The most original sin is not the thinker’s but the poet’s.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Perhaps it’s more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Happiness is always a coincidence.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“Art is good but it isn’t the best.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“True art tries not to attract attention–in order to be noticed.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
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“When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music
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“The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.”

José Bergamín
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music

“Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Temptation
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“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular…. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it…. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“It is one of man’s curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Problems
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“There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Philosophy
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“To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Patience
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“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pain
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“Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Necessity
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“Every country has the government it deserves.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Freedom
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“If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.”

Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Evil