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Simone de Beauvoir quote: That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

John Steinbeck quote: I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck quote: Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

John Steinbeck quote: When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

John Steinbeck quote: All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck portrait and quote: I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found,

John Steinbeck quote: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck quote: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

John Steinbeck quote: All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck portrait and quote: To be alive at all is to have scars.

John Steinbeck portrait and quote: There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty.

John Steinbeck quote: It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck quote: And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck quote: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Heinrich Heine portrait and quote: All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

Heinrich Heine quote: Von allen Welten, die der Mensch erschaffen hat, ist die der Bücher die Gewaltigste.

Heinrich Heine quote: Von allen Welten, die der Mensch erschaffen hat, ist die der Bücher die Gewaltigste.

Heinrich Heine quote: Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Heinrich Heine quote: Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Heinrich Heine quote: When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

Heinrich Heine quote: Where words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine quote: So long as my heart is full of love and the heads of my fellow-men are full of folly, I shall never lack something to write about.

Heinrich Heine quote: One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Heinrich Heine quote: Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

Heinrich Heine portrait and quote: Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine portrait and quote: Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine quote: God will forgive me. It's his job.

Heinrich Heine quote: Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too.

Robert Browning portrait and quote: This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

Robert Browning quote: What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning portrait and quote: Where my heart lies, let my brain lie also!

Robert Browning quote: Time is counted, not by hours, but by heart-beats.

Robert Browning portrait and quote: But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, And, baffled, get up and begin again,— So the chase takes up one's life, that's all.