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

Richard Bach

Richard Bach

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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

Richard Bach

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If your happiness depends on what others do, I suppose you'll be in a tight spot.

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

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Isn't sleep the testimony of the lost being, of a being that is lost, of a being that flees from our being, even if we can repeat it, find it again in its strange transformation?

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

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Science is the aesthetics of intelligence.

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

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The poet's first task is to unmoor within us a substance that wants to dream.

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

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Our life is so full that it acts when we do nothing.

Jim Backus

Jim Backus

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More than one owes their success to their first wife, and their second wife to their success.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The friendship doubles the joys and divides the sorrows in half.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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If one starts with certainties, they will end with doubts; but if one accepts to start with doubts, they will end with certainties.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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Some books are tasted, others swallowed, and only a few are chewed and digested.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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By seeking revenge, one equals oneself to their enemy; by forgiving, one shows superiority over them.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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He who does not want to think is a fanatic; he who cannot think is an idiot; he who dares not to think is a coward.