Read quote“常欲得思深语近，韵律调新，属对无差，而风情宛然，而病未能也。”
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Read quote“I've always found that the simple act of paying attention can take you a long way in life.”
Read quote“I'm nobody special.”
Read quote“I loved him, however: and to this very Schlemihl ... I am indebted for the little volume which I communicate to you.”
Read quote“It’s essential that we govern on the basis of science and not science fiction.”
Read quote“Each obstacle, everything that goes wrong is just an opportunity to practice a virtue—to give you a chance to work with your non-dominant hand.”
Read quote“When you're stretching yourself, as a role like "Blue Jasmine" did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.”
Read quote“天变不足畏，祖宗不足法，人言不足恤。”
Read quote“Člověk slevuje ustavičně a v tom je vlastně celá životní filosofie: slevovati z ideálů svých.”
Read quote“In both angelism and devilry, it is a question of intensity – and this is what our literature lacks.”
Read quote“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry.”
Read quote“Życie — to wielki hymn stworzenia dla Stwórcy.”
Read quote“The former was superstition; the latter is undisguised egoism.”
Read quote“The root of poetry is in its emotions, its branches in its wording, its flowers in its rhyme and voice, and lastly its final culmination in the fruits of its meaning.”
Read quote“How can I submit tamely to disgrace seeing that the Persians are my maternal uncles and the Rum my parental uncles?”
Read quote“What reasons have you to envy anything?”
Read quote“I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play.”
Read quote“Ich habe das seit jeher für einen sehr schwierigen Beruf gehalten.”
Read quote“Be not afraid!”
Read quote“So, one year ago, we faced weakening employment and output forecasts as well as a small, but temporary, step-up in above-target inflation.”