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“It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. Known for his short stories and poetry, particularly his works of horror and mystery. His most famous works include 'The Black Cat', 'The Raven', and 'Annabel Lee'. more

“The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.”

People Ifs Giving Humans Book Stories Use Used Sides Example Lists Reputation Warning Both Sides

Author:Jim Rohn

“Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.”

Way Needs Humans Evil Talking Oneself Cruelty Inhuman Citing Way Of Talking

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.”

Humans Next Literature Fire Civilization Discovery Males Triumph Wheels Glowing

Book:The Unfinished Country

Source: The Unfinished Country

“Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.”

Humans Used Generations Objects Essentials Paper Warm Landscape Museums Pot Fewer Grandparent Furniture Phantoms Pots And Pans

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.”

Mind Humans Wells Desire Fashion Ideals Strive Statements Human Mind Charming Tease Unsatisfied Fashion Statement

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.”

Humans I Can Light Certain Universe Seeing Particular Command Range Woven Tempting Unraveling

Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.”

Mind Humans Hate Effort Struggle Sea I Hate Rage Beast Human Mind Everlasting Roaring Dens Wild Beasts Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas Sailors And The Sea Wild Sea

Book:The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

“What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!”

Humans Human Nature Development Get Over Fence Captives Breadth

Author:Alexander Herzen

“If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.”

Ifs Believe Humans Kind Whole Character Might Order Women Morality Female Excellence Treasure Female Characters

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!”

Ifs Thinking Humans Long Book Realizing Huge Laughter Lays Bounds Finished Humankind Sheer Let Down

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

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