Famous quotes

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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Perfect love has this power: that we forget our happiness to make those we love happy.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Things go wrong if they lack the touch of human skin.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Hope, only hope, nothing else, you reach a point where there is nothing but hope, and then we discover that we still have everything.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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What will be, will be. I know that philosophy. They often call it predestination, fatalism, fate, but what it really means is that you will do as you damn well please, as always.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Happiness is not doing what one wants but wanting what one does.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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The world could exist very well without literature, and even better without man.

Vittorio Alfieri

Vittorio Alfieri

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To have someone to cry with lessens the tears of many.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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I love men not because they are men, but because they are not women.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I don't ask for wealth, or hopes, or love, or a friend who understands me; all I ask for is the sky above me and a path at my feet.

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

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It's not enough to just hear the music; you also have to see it.