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Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about love, human imperfections, being, contentment

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Quote by Hannah Arendt about death, unforeseen, end, human imperfections, things, life

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principles doomed to failure.

Quote by Carl Sandburg about opinion, failure, human imperfections

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Quote by Kurt Vonnegut about people, survival, evolution, brain, glory, human imperfections

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Quote by Pierre Bayle about history, criminals, human imperfections, nothing

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Quote by Jodie Foster about cruelty, human imperfections

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert about humanity

I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or perhaps even a full length book.

Quote by Dee Brown about literature, faith, human imperfections, being

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Quote by Jane Fonda about opinion, power, human imperfections, being, contentment, people

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about will, power, faith, human imperfections, things

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about literature, writers, soul, human imperfections

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis about people, insults, humor, problems, common sense, sense, human imperfections, being

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

Quote by Amedeo Modigliani about opinion, human imperfections, real estate

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg about people, human imperfections, man

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Quote by Russell Hoban about language, history, human imperfections

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about people, dream, human imperfections

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Quote by Nikolai Vasilievici Gogol about pasion, human imperfections

To complain about dying is to complain about being human.

Quote by Jean de Rotrou about death, human imperfections, being

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Quote by Jules Romains about history, disaster, human imperfections

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