Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

Rebecca West's Popular Quotes

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

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Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

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No great thing happens suddenly.

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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the f…

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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

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The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story abou…

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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

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