“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
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(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
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“But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“To belittle, you have to be little.”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Persuasion
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Persuasion
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
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