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With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty. ↗

— David Gower

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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. ↗

— Billy Graham

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