"Never the mind without the soul."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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"You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God."

— Graham Greene

Literature1904–1991

#religion

"A man that does not aim at raising to himself a great name, will never perform any great actions. And such as go carelessly on in the road of their professions suffer all the fatigues, without acquiri…"

— Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

Literature1647–1733

#nature

"I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.'"

— Roger Federer

Sports1981

#life

"Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival."

— Roger Ebert

Literature1942–2013

#life