"I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head."

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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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"The interview was an unmitigated disaster. The first problem was that he chose to give his first formal interview in English and not in Hindi. This strengthened the impression that he represented the …"

— Rahul Gandhi

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"In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

— John Henry Newman

Religion1801–1890

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"I doubt myself every day. I think most writers do. It’s part of the process. It’s in part what keeps you trying to write better each day, each book. If you were ever completely satisfied, I think you …"

— Ridley Pearson

Literature1953

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