Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Juan Rulfo

Juan Rulfo

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Learn this, son: in the new nest, you have to leave an egg. When old age flaps its wings at you, you will learn to live, you will know that your children leave you, that they don't appreciate anything; that they even consume your memory.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

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All ideas, even sacred ones, must adapt to new realities.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

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I grew up kissing books and bread. Since I kissed a woman, my activities with bread and books lost interest.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

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Truth is what the majority sees as truth, but the majority can also change its mind throughout history.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

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Language and imagination cannot be imprisoned.

Art
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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When a man asks for justice, it's because he wants to be right.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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Of all the ways to deceive others, the pose of seriousness is the one that wreaks the most havoc.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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To deceive men one by one is much more difficult than deceiving them by the thousand. That's why the speaker has less merit than the lawyer or the healer.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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A revolution is the triumph of the ambitious from below over the fearful from above.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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Those who wear decorations are like shops with little merchandise that display everything in the shop window.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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If it were true that traveling teaches, ticket inspectors would be the wisest men in the world.

Fun
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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The best love letters are written by those who are not in love.