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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery

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On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. – Greta Scacchi

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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. – Samuel Johnson

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I restore myself when Im alone. – Marilyn Monroe

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The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. – Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999

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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. – G. K. Chesterton

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