Famous quotes

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

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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No matter how disillusioned we may be, it is impossible to live without some hope. We always hold on to one, despite ourselves, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the other explicit hopes we have rejected or exhausted.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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The belief in some kind of supernatural evil is not necessary. Men alone are capable of any evil.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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Life is a farce: that mysterious arrangement of relentless logic for a futile purpose. The most one can expect from it is a certain self-knowledge, which comes too late, and a harvest of unquenchable regrets.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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The secret to ridiculing people lies in attributing talent to those who do not have it.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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

Cristina II

Cristina II

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Life is a traffic where losses and gains are balanced.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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The smallest fly irritates the most terrible lion.

Diogenes of Sinope

Diogenes of Sinope

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Other dogs only bite their enemies, while I also bite my friends in order to save them.

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

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The world is full of statesmen whom democracy has degraded, turning them into politicians.

John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos

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We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

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I have never cheated on my wife. It's not a merit: I love her.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

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The pyramids are the best example that, in any time and place, workers tend to work less.