#ten

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him. ↗

— Ruth Ellis

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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#arc #character #complete #expand #feel

I've never written a book before. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#book #i #never #written

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion. ↗

— Michael Ende

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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. ↗

— Paul Engle

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Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations. ↗

— John Ensign

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