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Andre Malraux

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and...
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GAIL CARRIGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
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LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Don't just read to read. Read to understand.
JILL TELFORD Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind ...
OMAR BONGO Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w...
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In...
L. LIONEL KENDRICK When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
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CORONER GARY KIRCHNER The infinite terms that describe God are beyond comprehension
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) She will feel the pain forever that is beyond comprehension.
DR. XIAOYAN WU Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
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-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
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HARPER LEE if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
JOHN ADAMS The miraculous wonder of this blessed day is beyond my comprehension.
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ERIC STOLTZ Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.

...
STEVEN MOFFAT It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's hitting us big-time today. People are looking to use this as an opportunity to profit. It's alm...
PHIL ZEPEDA The magnitude of this calamity is beyond comprehension, ... It's like Sept. 11 all over again.
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned t...
NATHALIE M. LEBLANC How many times does he move? How many times does this little child, who really does not yet have tot...
JUDITH ERWIN The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
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JOHN ADAMS Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
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ANDRE BRETON The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
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ANDRE BRETON There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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ANDRE BRETON Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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ANDRE BRETON What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
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ANDRE GIDE Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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ANDRE GIDE The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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ANDRE GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRE GIDE Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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ANDRE MAUROIS One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
ANDRE MAUROIS So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to ...
ANDRE BENJAMIN I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.
ANDRE BALAZS Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
ANDRE GIDE Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROIS I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or...
ERIC ANDRE A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROIS It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
PETER ANDRE We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROIS I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of ...
ERIC ANDRE