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🇺🇸Ernest Hemingway

Literature

1899–1961

"In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken."

"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."

"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

"He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."

"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power."

"From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"On ne reçoit pas la sagesse, il faut la découvrir soi-même après un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous épargner."

"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before."

"The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!"

"When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it."

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo."

"On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it."

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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."

"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one."

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature

1918–2008

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

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

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."

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🇺🇸Gore Vidal

Literature

postmodern literature

1925–2012

"You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country."

"The year 2000: April 43rd.—To-day is a day of splendid triumph. Spain has a king; he has been found, and I am he."

"A friend of mine suffered from COPD. That's why I wanted to let you know about Inogen, a new way to have oxygen anytime, anywhere. Look into the difference Inogen can make for you."

"All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens."

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🇬🇧W. Somerset Maugham

Literature

1874–1965

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother."

"I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore"

"A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."

"Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape."

"Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it."

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🇺🇸William S. Burroughs

Literature

Beat Generation

1914–1997

"A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on."

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🇦🇹Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Literature

1830–1916

"None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort."

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

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🇺🇸Edgar Rice Burroughs

Literature

1875–1950

"She was quite the most wonderful animal that I have ever looked upon, and what few of her charms her apparel hid, it quite effectively succeeded in accentuating."

"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"

"Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter."

"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."

"The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation."

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