Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.

Roger de Rabutin de Bussy

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Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.

Steve Maraboli

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

Thomas Pynchon

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Lenin

...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

A.A. Milne

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Andy Rooney

So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

Billy Joel

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C.S. Lewis

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Chuck Palahniuk

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Dan Brown

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Fulton J. Sheen

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell

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