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Quote 1. - “All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.” Indira Gandhi (more…)

Quote 1.- “That a germ of Michel (the immoralist) exists in me goes without saying. How many buds we bear in us, Scheffer, that will never blossom save in our books! They are ‘dormant eyes’ as the botanists call them. But if intentionally you suppress all of them _but one_, how it grows at once! How it enlarges, immediately monopolizing all the sap! My recipe for creating a fictional hero is very simple: take one of these buds and put it in a pot _all alone_; you soon achieve a wonderful individual. Advice: choose preferably (if it is true you can choose) the bud that bothers you the most. You get rid of it at the same time. This is perhaps what Aristotle called the purging of passions.” André Gide

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Quote 1.- “What charm can any one find in an excursion, when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventures.”(Wanderings in Spain ) Theophile Gautier

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Quote 1.- “Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.” Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Quote 1.-“There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men — and God knows why they are so fashioned — did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.” (The Sorrows of Young Werther) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Quote 1.- “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” Galileo Galilei

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