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- Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1797
- To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick, 1851
- Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha (1951), Chapter: Awakening
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