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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
Tragedies
[ D. H. Lawrence ]
773 votes.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Insanity
[ Oscar Levant ]
773 votes.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Manners
[ Wyndham Lewis ]
773 votes.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Literature
[ Mario Vargas Llosa ]
773 votes.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Death and Dying
[ F. L. Lucan ]
773 votes.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Silence
[ Marcel Marceau ]
773 votes.

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
Excellence
[ Orison Swett Marden ]
773 votes.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
Happiness
[ William Maxwell ]
773 votes.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Despair
[ Rollo May ]
773 votes.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Ambition
[ Charlie McCarthy ]
773 votes.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Information
[ Marshall Mcluhan ]
773 votes.

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
Nuns
[ H. L. Mencken ]
773 votes.

Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
Sex
[ George Mikes ]
773 votes.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Fashion
[ Christopher Morley ]
773 votes.

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
Ideas
[ J. Richard Munro ]
773 votes.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Self-control
[ Friedrich Nietzsche ]
773 votes.

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
self-esteem
[ Friedrich Nietzsche ]
773 votes.

I am just going outside and may be some time.
Suicide
[ Lawrence Oates ]
773 votes.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.
Knowledge
[ John Oldham ]
773 votes.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
Rules
[ Charles Osgood ]
773 votes.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Human Nature
[ Thomas Paine ]
773 votes.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Influence
[ Blaise Pascal ]
773 votes.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Valor
[ Plutarch ]
773 votes.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
Wit
[ Alexander Pope ]
773 votes.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Hell
[ Karl Popper ]
773 votes.

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