Sophocles Quotes
From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape.
Sophocles
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
Kalpana Chawla
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Mae West
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People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.
Natalia Makarova
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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
Samuel Beckett
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
Camille Paglia
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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
Randall Jarrell
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The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincer machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons.
Daniel Handler
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
Marcus Aurelius
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
Betty Smith
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The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.
Arabella Pollen
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From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape.
Sophocles