The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

Pete Hamill

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The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.

Róbert Gál

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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

Saki

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A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all...

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring.

W.M. Driscoll

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What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

Thomas Stockman

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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Samuel Butler

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Please be my friend.

kevin mcpherson eckhoff

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