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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
- Fertilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020