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Quote by George Moore
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and return

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. – George Moore

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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

Category:
Contradiction
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George Moore
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

Category:
Being in Love
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George Moore
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. – William Butler Yeats

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Self-Discovery

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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Self-Discovery

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. – James Baldwin

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Self-Discovery

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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