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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

(Ruth Benedict - 'Patterns of Culture')



Human life is mainly a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

(Eric Berne - 'Games People Play')



A minute's success pays the failure of years.

(Robert Browning - 'Apollo and the Fates')



Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

(Giacoma Girolama 'Casanova' De Seinealt - 'Memoires')



Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

(Miguel de Cervantes - 'Don Quixote')



Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

(Nicolas Chamfort - 'Caractres et anecdotes')



Really great people always see the best in others; it is the little man who looks for the worst - and finds it.

(Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)



They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

(Robert Frost - 'Desert Places')



No human relation gives one possession in another - every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

(Kahlil Gibran - 'Beloved Prophet')



One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

(Andr Gide - 'The Counterfeiters')



If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

(Herman Hesse - 'Demian')



How can we be sure that we are not imposters?

(Jacques Lacan - 'The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis')



Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

(Franois La Rochefoucauld - 'Reflections,
or Sentences and Moral Maxims')



If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

(Katherine Mansfield - 'Katherine Mansfield')



The aim of life is to love, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

(Henry Miller - 'The Wisdom of the Heart')



Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.

(Christian Morgenstern)



If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do.
I do not know who or what I am.

(Peter Sellers)



Give gifts to those who should know love. Give hell to those who take us lightly.

(Ntozake Shange - 'Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo')



I didn't go to the moon, I went much further - for time is the longest distance between two places.

(Tennessee Williams - 'The Glass Menagerie')























I am going to marry the woman that plays Clover
Do you think she'll want a diamond ring or a diamond Monroe?