Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eleven.

                                          Lawrence Durrell.

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“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

“It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.”

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8166.Lawrence_Durrell

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred ten.

                                                    Emily Brontё.

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“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.”“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4191.Emily_Bront_

and https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4191.Emily_Bront_?page=2  

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred nine.

                                                                  Tycho Brahe.

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“With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.”

“Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.”

“I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.”

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https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/tycho-brahe-quotes   

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eight.

                                                            Filippo Brunelleschi.

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“Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.”

“To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.”

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https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/filippo-brunelleschi-quotes 

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred seven.

                                                                  Lord Byron.

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“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction”

“Friendship is love without wings.”

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44407.Lord_Byron  

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred six.

                                                     Mary Shelley.

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“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”

“The beginning is always today.”

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

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Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred five.

                                                  O. Henry.

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“All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”

“I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.”

“There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.”

“It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.”

“The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. ”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8993.O_Henry 

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred four.

                                                    Johannes Kepler.

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“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”

“I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”

“Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/johannes-kepler-quotes  

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred three.

                                                                   Thomas More.

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“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”

“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”

“I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.”

“It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.”

“The heart that has truly loved never forgets.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/thomas-more-quotes 

and https://www.azquotes.com/author/10365-Thomas_More 

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred two.

                                              Daniel Defoe.

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“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”

“He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.”

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2007.Daniel_Defoe  

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred one.

                                                              Donatello.

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“Take the wood and make one of your own”

“Speak, damn you, speak!”

Source of information:

https://www.thehistoryofart.org/donatello/quotes/ 

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred.

                                                                           Jonathan Swift.

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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1831.Jonathan_Swift 

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety nine.

                                                  Robert Louis Stevenson.

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“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

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Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety eight.

                                                                    Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.

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“None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an comprehend what the ordained utters out of his inspiration.”

“Oh, where have you gone, you blissful dreams of future happiness”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7267068.E_T_A_Hoffmann 

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety seven.

                                                              J. M. Barrie.

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“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/james-m-barrie-quotes

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety six.

                                                          Daphne du Maurier.

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”

“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.” 

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2001717.Daphne_du_Maurier

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety five.

                                                                       Leon Battista Alberti.

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“Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.”

“Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.”

“The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes 

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety four.

                                                                    Rudyard Kipling.

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/lists/authors/top-10-rudyard-kipling-quotes

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety three.

                                                     Edgar Allan Poe.

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“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4624490.Edgar_Allan_Poe 

Famous people and their quotes. Part ninety two.

                                                              Charles Dickens.

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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/239579.Charles_Dickens