Autobiographer

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"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."

"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory."

""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

"The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it’s there. It’s mapped out for me."

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🇺🇸Henry David Thoreau

Literature

Western philosophy

1817–1862

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.."

"If I had loved any one sufficiently to make confiding my griefs a necessity, I should not have been in the condition."

"Don’t hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son."

"The king has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

"We propose to make the process of constitutional amendment far easier, speedier, and simpler than at present."

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🇺🇸Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy

atheism

1949–2011

"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum."

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🇺🇸Thomas Mann

Literature

"The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed."

"I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live."

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🇺🇸Booker T. Washington

Literature

1856–1915

"There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life."

"The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime."

"I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made."

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🇫🇷Guy Debord

Philosophy

Situationist International

1931–1994

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."

"Closed societies are now the flimsiest of illusions, for all the outsiders are demanding in."

"First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love."

"The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege."

"Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists."

"The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of "fatalism."

"Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda – Democracy Now! interviews Martin Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."

"Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers."

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🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez

Literature

magic realism

1927–2014

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

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