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...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.


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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
HELEN ROWLAND You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
JAMES JOYCE You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
JAMES JOYCE When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
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ANAïS NIN How sad to be a woman—not to know Aught of the glory of this breast of snow, All unconcerned to co...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The appointment of this young woman will mean the rejuvenation of the Orchestra in the best way. The...
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman...
A.W. TOZER Just watching Bette Davis on the screen was empowering to women, I think. Certainly was to me. It wa...
JANE FONDA Sharon and Ozzy really like us; they asked us to play, ... Sharon is a sweet, sweet woman.
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AUDREY HEPBURN Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
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CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN I hate the word 'feminine!' I mean, there is a woman and a man, and when I say 'woman,&#...
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MELISSA ROSENBERG There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be...
COCO CHANEL I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be wri...
PAM GEMS “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
Behind that outside pat...
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GEORGE HARRISON Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothi...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH This light called Sweetness now belongs to heaven and to the ages. Thank God for Sweetness.
JESSE JACKSON This is how southern woman worked all peaches in cream laced with arsenic 
MOLLY HARPER Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who...
NTOZAKE SHANGE With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or exper...
DANA PLATO This is a great community, and it's got a lot of things in place that nobody knows about yet. We're ...
ARLEN SANDERS A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
SUZE ORMAN She's still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is...
ANDERSON COOPER Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.
ELIZABETH ARDEN Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a s...
IVANKA TRUMP In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This...
G. WILLOW WILSON Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all ri...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, ...
DEYTH BANGER new shapes and the new fresh woman. We are talking about this woman, and we are looking for this wom...
FRANCOIS GIRBAUD People often say that a very attractive woman is 'out of their league' Let me be clear about this......
NICK KINSELLA Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
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AMY POEHLER I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that’s no...
CATHERINE DENEUVE A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words c...
SHANNON L. ALDER Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
HANSJORG WYSS Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not bea...
GERMAINE GREER Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all that a man can invent.
ROMAN PAYNE How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without soun...
STACY SCHIFF Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH This is really overkill. ... This is a choking off of information to the woman. This is a life and d...
MARIE STURGIS I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
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PARKER S. HUNTINGTON I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles...
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KATE BECKINSALE Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
QUEEN LATIFAH Certainly, this is a difficult circumstance and not how I'd like this opportunity to come about. I w...
JEFF SIMMONS I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that...
UMBERTO ECO Woman of design is what I see. Woman of love is what I give. Woman of strength is who I am. Woman of...
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DONALD NORMAN Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integ...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and thi...
JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do...
VIRGIL The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to d...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
EMILY PRAGER Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is su...
SHERYL SANDBERG What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
MARCEL PROUST I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the g...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman ...
PETER KREEFT What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
SHIRLEY MANSON There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALAN BLEASDALE One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN A lot of this is just people he'd hang around with, he'd tell them about how this woman is ruining h...
HARLAND BRAUN People like a woman who drinks her scotch straight. People like a woman who serves milk and cookies....
PEGGY UPCHURCH A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.
CHLOE THURLOW The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way,
but I think it must be love. Not the tep...
BETTIE SHARPE

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VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
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VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
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VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
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VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
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VICTOR HUGO It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
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VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
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VICTOR HUGO Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
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VICTOR HUGO Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
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VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
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VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
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VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
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VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
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VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
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VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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