Sunday, August 28, 2011

a selection of english quotes

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"
- George Bernard Shaw

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"if there is a sin against life perhaps it is not so much in giving up hope in it
as it is to hope for another life and to rob oneself of the implacable grandeur of this life." -Albert Camus

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"W.H. Auden was once asked what advice he would give a young man who wished to become a poet. Auden replied that he would ask the young man why he wanted to write poetry, if the answer was "because I like to hang around words and overhear them talking to one another," then that young man was at least interested in a fundamental part of the poetic process and there was hope for him."

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
- Clarence Darrow

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"The heart has its reasons that reason does not understand."
- Blaise Pascal

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