I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Quotations
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.