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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' I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!
John Sununu
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As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.
Marcel Proust
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From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape.
Sophocles