Famous quotes

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

Lindsay Kemp

Lindsay Kemp

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I never read novels or essays, but biographies. For me, a man's life is more important than his dreams on paper.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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One who truly has a clear conscience will easily be happy and at peace.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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You are not more because you are praised, nor less because you are criticized; what you are in front of God, that is what you are and nothing more.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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Have a good conscience and you will always have joy. If there is any joy in the world, it surely belongs to the person with a pure heart.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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I have sought tranquility everywhere, and I have only found it sitting in a secluded corner, with a book in my hands.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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The humble knowledge of oneself is a safer path to God than the path of science.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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If we were to eliminate one vice every year, we would soon become perfect.

Carmen Martín Gaite

Carmen Martín Gaite

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Sometimes in the dark, in the complicated, truth is touched.

Carmen Martín Gaite

Carmen Martín Gaite

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that lying is due to the inability to shout out for others to accept you as you are.

Carmen Martín Gaite

Carmen Martín Gaite

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The absence must be allowed to hurt as much as it wants and transformed into something good, now I know. It's not about hastily replacing it with other presences, but about living it and letting it distill knowledge and goodness, bluntly, like what you did, rejecting substitutes.

Carmen Martín Gaite

Carmen Martín Gaite

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Indecisions are also made, stopping to do is also a way of doing.

Carmen Martín Gaite

Carmen Martín Gaite

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I know. I complicate my life, I ask myself questions, and I get into trouble. I say what I think and what I feel; I'm not afraid of what others think of me. And I'm happy, despite everything, being who I am.