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

Václav Havel

Václav Havel

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Hope is not the same as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but rather the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Václav Havel

Václav Havel

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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that he cares less and less about it.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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Those impeccable authors are the ones who never wrote.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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Violent antipathies are always suspicious and reveal a secret affinity.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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Awake men have only one world, but sleeping men have their own world.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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Fashion always begins and ends with the two things it detests the most: uniqueness and vulgarity.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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When we are busier is when we have more time to have fun.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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Man is an animal that feeds on flattery.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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I would like to spend my entire life traveling, if someone could lend me a second life to spend at home.

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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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Man is the only animal that laughs and cries, because he is the only one who perceives the difference between what things are and what they should be.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of the hypocrite is hypocrisy itself.