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She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses,...

I need you here with me we look for our love but we don't find it I'm searching and searching, I really need you here with me boy we're going Round - and Round!

If good management practice drives the failure of successful firms faced with disruptive technological change, then the usual answers to companies' problems—planning better, working harder, becoming...

You can need someone you don't love. You can't love someone you don't need. Consequently, you can be with someone you don't love because you need the person. But you can't be with someone you don't...

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

Persevere with a positive attitude - Michael Jordan

When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations.

Once upon a time a boy loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear...

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

A joyful life, life of contentment.

Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? - why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections - an idea which carries you back to...

how easy human frailties could thrive under the cover of idealism

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side...

In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have...

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.

For example, Professor Morris Raphael Cohen was a very distinguished philosopher who challenged conventional wisdom in a Yiddish accent. With the diversity and poverty of its students, City College...

Come, my love,' said Míkál, 'and say goodnight to the dark.' And held him close, full of a sweet young compassion, as the little boy died.

But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn't please me. I see only aging, diminishment,...

There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.

Some daughter of one of the gentry planters, perhaps? Those girls had the domestic virtues. But - he was comfortable enough with his good servants at Fairfield House. His yearnings had little relation...

But such consummate skill, such ability, such adaptability, such numbing ruthlessness, such a use of weapons when anything could become weapon . . .

Fire's tears were real now, and there was no helping them, for there was no time. Everything was moving too fast. She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face...

I wish I was more Moomin-minded.

Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly and yet still returning through the infinite...

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.