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Quote by Edward Rutherfurd

“You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”

Book:New York

Work

New York

New York is a detailed exploration of the city's development, notable attractions, and the diverse communities that contribute to its vibrant culture. more

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Edward Rutherfurd

Edward Rutherfurd is an acclaimed American author, famous for his historical novels that delve into the lives of fictional characters across generations. Born in 1948, Rutherfurd's works are noted for their thorough research and engaging narrative style, which have garnered him a dedicated fan base. more

“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

Knows Men World Love Life Humans Two States Feelings Order Felt Waiting Know How This World Despair Capable Ultimate Bliss Comparison Unhappiness Human Wisdom

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.”

Long Art Spirit Lying Passion Habit Tasks Depth Vanity Abstract Imitation

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

“What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.”

Lying Effort Clear Drag Obscurity Decipher

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

“This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.”

Persons Wisdom Reality Known Serious Intellectual Surrender Fantastic Mystical Unseen Gamble Acts Of Love Gift Of Love

Author:Thomas Merton

“I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.”

Mind Humans Age Nations Perfect Gone Heard Mankind Hundred Wicked Human Mind Conception Traits Wickedness Progression

Book:John Stuart Mill: Life, Life Lessons & Achievements: Childhood and Early Education, Moral Influences in Early Youth, Youthful Propagandism, Completion of the

Source: John Stuart Mill: Life, Life Lessons & Achievements: Childhood and Early Education, Moral Influences in Early Youth, Youthful Propagandism, Completion of the

“A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

People Feelings Lying Embrace Communicate Corruption Reaching Centre Impossibility Defiance Rapture Faded Closeness Chatter

Book:Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”