"You Must not find Symbols in Everything you see, It makes life Impossible."
                                                            - Oscar Wilde

Quotes

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"Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart's going to cave in."
                                                                  - American Beauty

"Common sense is the set of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
                                      - Albert Einstein

"We're all in the gutter, but some of  us are are looking up at the stars."
                                      - Oscar Wilde

"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom in you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.  To see reality - not as we expect it to be but what as it is- is to see that unless we live for each other and in and though each other, we do not live very satisfactory; that there can really by life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."
  -  Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

"I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four Aces.
                        - Mark Twain

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
              - George Sand

"You have taken the east from me, you have
taken the west from me, you have what is
before me and what is behind me; you have
taken the moon, you have taken the sun from
me and my fear is great you have taken God
from me."
    -The Irish Girls Lament

"…For here, millions of mixed shades and
shadows drowned dreams and somnambulisms,
reveries, all that we call lives and souls, lie
dreaming, dreaming still; tossing like
slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves
but made so by their restlessness."

Herman Melville, Moby Dick