Quotes on history

“To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”

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“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

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“One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour.”

Topics: history, lives, living

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

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“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”

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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

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“Moods don’t last. It is their chief charm.”

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“Genius lasts longer than Beauty.”

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

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