"Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears."
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"Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself"
"I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work."
"Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today."
"It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time."
"If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work."
"There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit."
"The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition."
"The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect."
"The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him."
"The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel."
"It does the heart good to look at you."
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
"A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have."
"The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching."
"Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end."
"In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry."
"Does the business have a consistent operating history?"
"Does management resist the institutional imperative?"
"It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does."