I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
~ John le Carré
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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
~ John le Carré
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
~ Albert Camus
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
~ Rollo May
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We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live.
~ Jenny Odell
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Surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
~ Jonathan Swift
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The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment, brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the word.
~ T.S. Eliot
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I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening – the time they call, for some accountable reason, ‘between dog and wolf’.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Mark Twain
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