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If we do not learn to sacrifice small differences of opinion, we can never act together. Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The purblind majority quite honestly believed that literature was meant to mimic human life, and that it did so. And in consequence, their love-affairs, their maxims, their so-called natural ties and instincts, and above all, their wickedness, became just so many bungling plagiarisms from something they had read, in a novel or a Bible or a poem or a newspaper. People progressed from the kindergarten to the cemetery assuming that their emotion at every crisis was what books taught them was the appropriate emotion, and without noticing that it was in reality something quite different. Human life was a distorting tarnished mirror held up to literature: this much at least of Wilde's old paradox — that life mimicked art — was indisputable. Human life,
very clumsily, tried to reproduce the printed word.
quote by James Branch Cabell
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
quote by Anatole France
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Dadaism is a characteristic symptom of the disordered modern world. It was first inspired by the chaos and collapse of Europe during the war.
Tristan Tzara in Vanity Fair, Some Memoirs of Dadaism (July 1922)
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Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.
quote by Henry James
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci in A Treatise on Painting
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Beauty is like a treasure, it is not enough to see it but also to open it.
Zepfira Zinaida Popa (14 April 2021)
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When your soul cries, you are like a tree without roots through the geometry of life, the stars drip on you like silver tears. Then you need more hope than ever
Camelia Oprița in Te Deum (25 December 2007)
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We are like clouds. They pass and intertwine, they resemble one another. We shall not last long. We cannot hold onto anything.
Bernardo Carvalho in The Drunks and the Sleepwalkers (Os Bêbados e os Sonâmbulos) (1996), translated by Dan Costinaș
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It is an old cliché to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
quote by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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