Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock....
~Philip Larkin, Observation

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
~ Bertrand Russell

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.~Oscar Wilde

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~ Albert Schweitzer

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.~Oscar Wilde

Life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language.
~Tom Stoppard

on being told that his accountant had blown his brains out:
I'm amazed he was such a good shot.
~ Noel Coward

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.~H.G. Wells

There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.
~Roland Barthes

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to everyone his due.
~ Justinian

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
~ Albert Einstein

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do no let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.~John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
~ Edward Coke

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
~ Bertrand Russell

When desire dies, fear is born.
~ Baltasar Gracian

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One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are few.~Theognis, Elegies

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
~ Albert Camus

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
~ George Bernard Shaw August

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
~ Proverb

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Since in this sphere we have no abiding place,
To be without wine and a lover is a mistake.
~Oma Khajiam, The Ruba'iyat

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was a Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine is good company.~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

In order these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women and Song.~Franklin P. Adams, The Ancient Three

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
~ H. Mumford Jones

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~ B. F. Skinner

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