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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.


Guillaume Apollinaire

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MARK TWAIN What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
MARK TWAIN Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!
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JODIE BERNSTEIN When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.
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GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE it's raining womens voices as if they were dead even in memory
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GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
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GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ They came./ He pushed them. ...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Joy always came after pain.
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GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne
Vous...
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"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," ...
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OWEN MEREDITH We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON He without benefit of scruples
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RON SILVER It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
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ELIZABETH ASTON Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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HERMANN HESSE Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
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INA TORTON Those that rise without recourse to the poor shall soon be at the mercy of the poor.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
CONFUCIUS

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