George Saintsbury Quotes
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
Kathy Mattea
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
Jeff Long
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For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
Sophocles
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
Socrates
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon
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Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
William Butler Yeats
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Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
Jacques Lacan
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Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
Tim Bishop
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
George Saintsbury