Jan Neruda famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
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I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s poetry, I’ll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.
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At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.
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Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
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I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.
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The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.
-- Jan Neruda
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
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