Escritas — Poems List

Friedrich Nietzsche

In Christianity neither morality nor

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

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Nicholas Chamfort

In great affairs men show

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

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Paulo Coelho

Few take up the burden

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

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Marilyn Manson

I like it [The Bible]

I like it [The Bible] as a book. Just like I like "The Cat In The Hat"

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Leo Tolstoy

Happy families are all alike;

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Otto von Bismark

Politics is no exact science.

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Harper Lee

Daylight, in my mind, the

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

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Paulo Coelho

The Lord listens to the

The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.

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Steve Martin

I believe that sex is

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

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Anatole France

People who have no weaknesses

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

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Paulo Coelho

To love is to commune

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.

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H. P. Lovecraft

It is only the inferior

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

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Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

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Henry Spencer

Those who do not understand

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

What do you mean? Do

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

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Paulo Coelho

True love allows each person

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

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Aleister Crowley

To read a newspaper is

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

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Marcus Aurelius

A candour affected is a

A candour affected is a dagger concealed.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

I have no help to

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

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Paulo Coelho

A warrior of light knows

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

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William S. Burroughs

After one look at this

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."

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Marcus Aurelius

A man does not sin

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

For though I do not

For though I do not ask for aid, we need it.

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Henry Rollins

When you start to doubt

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

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