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“All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.”

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Anatole France, a renowned French poet, was born on April 16, 1844, and passed away on October 12, 1924. His poetry has been highly regarded in the French literary world, known for its unique style and profound connotations. more

“Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.”

Men World Feels Humans Made Lost Force Social Human Beings Powerful Modern Creation Built Machines Complicated Ownership Powerless Alienation Modern Society Man Made Things

Author:Erich Fromm

“A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.”

Numbers Regret Months Telephones Salary Foul Rehab Clinic Deep Regret

Book:The Hippopotamus

Source: The Hippopotamus

“We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.”

World Mind Hands Might Artist Chance Talking Achieve Politician Claims Ministers Prime Prime Minister Birthright

Author:Stephen Fry

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”

Long Book Wish Reader Criticism Convince Long Book

Author:E. M. Forster

“Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.”

Men World Problem Today Faces Sides Men And Women Spheres World Today

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One can never have too large a party.”

Party

Author:Jane Austen

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.”

Author:Ray Bradbury

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