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“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.”

Stills Age Certain Wish Groups Figures Degrees Bases Wave Necks Spells Desirable Envelopes Eyeballs

Book:V.

Source: V.

“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”

People Want Needs Giving Writing

Author:Joss Whedon

“Do not hurry; do not rest.”

Inspirational

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.”

Needs Kids I Realized Costumes

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.”

Ends Law Order Literature Process Breaking The Law

Author:Georges Bataille

“My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.”

Said Found Fool Lucky Woods Apartment

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“Don't eat the yellow snow.”

Snow Yellow Snowboarding

Book:Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') (Songbook)

Source: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') (Songbook)

“He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.”

Half Changed Naked Dawn Small Talk

Book:Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.”

Said Lying Waiting Forget Dog Gun Crosses Letters Meetings Boxes Cards Posts Clock Hats Propose I Love Him Cab Forget Me

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”

One Time Gifted

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

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