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🇦🇺William Shakespeare

Literature

English Renaissance

1948–2010

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

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🇫🇷Albert Camus

Literature

continental philosophy

1913–1960

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

"What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return."

"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause."

"The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it."

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

"We had so little to eat, we were freezing all the time, but the sheer joy of being able to act fed our souls."

"To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw."

"It’s gone away from the thing that I hate, and now it’s more the thing that I don’t know how to do at all, or the thing that’s really hard to do…"

"You have to work five or six years in the theatre—in hit shows—to make people sick and tired of you, but this you can accomplish in only a few weeks on television. It's a remarkable medium."

"Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be."

"He smiled his irresistible smile, but Dora found it highly resistible."

"Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you, there are no words in it, just pictures."

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🇪🇸Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Literature

Baroque literature

1600–1681

"When love is not madness it is not love."

"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it."

"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."

"The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue."

"As a little girl my mother used to take me with her to her fittings with her very expensive seamstress. I was dazzled by the beauty of the fabrics and the whole procedure. I still remember the feel of expensive taffeta."

"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."

"Moliere's Verses Plays - Publication, Statistics, Words Research"

"Ingels: "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."

"It’s their continued perspective of who we are. They don’t know we’re very much a part of this country and that we make up every part of this country."

"I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through."

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🇪🇸Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Literature

Mannerism

1547–1616

"Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

"(an anguished cry): Consistency is all I ask! (low, wry rhetoric): Give us this day our daily mask."

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Literature

1751–1816

"No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman."

"I was hard hit. I wanted to ask this little girl to marry me. If we had passed eight days together, I should have done so! How weak and incomprehensible a man sometimes is!"

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