Edmund Gosse Quotes
The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.
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God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.
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The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.
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I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.
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You are a ghost, Andi," she says. "Almost gone." I look at her. I want to say something but I can't get the words out. She squeezes my hands. "Come back to us," she says. And she's gone.
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In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
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I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
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Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.
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All men can live together, if they wish to.
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Cultures are, in the final analysis, value-guided systems.
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Recently, I was giving a speech and I said that it's time for many of us to "go home." Not necessarily to move back home but rather to go back to our communities and support those outreach programs and those people who could use our assistance.
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The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
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The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.
