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Philosopher, Novelist

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

Thinking Literature Atlas

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Franz Kafka

Writer

“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.”

Literature Liberty Atlas

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.”

Men Life

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Political Philosopher, Historian

“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”

Opportunity Literature

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Every novel is a debtor to Homer.”

Literature Fiction Debtors

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Helen Keller

Author, Activist

“Literature is my Utopia”

Book Reading

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Henry Miller

Novelist, Essayist

“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.”

Life Literature

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.”

Thinking Literature Sick

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James Russell Lowell

Poet, Essayist

“In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”

Literature Ocean Morality

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

People Literature

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.”

Views Literature

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”

Literature Letters Memorial

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