"To be, or not to be; that..." - Quote by Mark Twain
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
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“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.”
“A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.”
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money.”
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“Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.”
“Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -”
“Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
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“He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.”
“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”
“I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.”