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This is wisdom: to love wine, beauty, and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient, the rest is worthless.

Quote by Theodore de Banville about wisdom, wine, spring, beauty, rest, love

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Quote by Jean Paul about music, night, life

Conscience is a man's compass.

Quote by Vincent van Gogh about conscience, man

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Quote by Serge Gainsbourg about ugliness, beauty

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about marriage, love

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about love, curiosity

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Quote by Marlon Brando about actors, talking, contentment

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Quote by Marlon Brando about actors, poets

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Quote by John Burroughs about life, war, fight

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Quote by Washington Irving about marriage

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti about religion, thinking, man

Rocks are diamants with stolen soul.

Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about personality, rocks, soul

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Quote by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade about happiness, imagination, ideal, work

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Quote by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade about religion

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Quote by Gaston Bachelard about people, creation, need, man

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

Quote by John Galsworthy about people, nothing, man

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Quote by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser about art, soul, magic, human imperfections

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Quote by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison about fantesy, reality, imagination, world

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Quote by James Abram Garfield about idea, war, world

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Quote by Leonard Cohen about poetry, life