"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."

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

“All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end.”

“Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.”

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

“C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.”

“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, which is the cause that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn.”

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"Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?"

— Agatha Christie

Literature1890–1976

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"In show business you learn to let it slide off your back. You know, fuck 'em. Otherwise you'd kill yourself."

— John Updike

Literature1932–2009

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"It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others."

— Orson Scott Card

Literature1951–2003

#power

"Critics frequently cry 'Dada' after attending one of my concerts or hearing one of my lectures. Others bemoan my interest in w:Zen. One of the liveliest lectures I ever heard was given by Nancy Wilson…"

— John Cage

Art1912–1992

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