Famous quotes

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

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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The past never dies, it is not even past.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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Don't bother trying to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors, try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One might think that misfortune will eventually tire of striking, but then it is time that becomes our misfortune.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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You cannot swim to new horizons if you do not have the courage to lose sight of the coast.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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Clocks kill time. Time is dead as long as it is being marked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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We all fail to achieve our dreams of perfection, so we grade ourselves based on our splendid failure in trying to achieve the impossible.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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If I had the chance to choose between the experience of pain and nothingness, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is not that it doesn't last forever, but that even heartbreak is soon forgotten.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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Never waste time regretting mistakes. Just don't forget them.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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The battlefield only reveals to man his own stupidity and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Enrique Ernesto Febbraro

Enrique Ernesto Febbraro

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When it rains, I share my umbrella; if I don't have an umbrella, I share the rain.