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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
― Arthur Conan Doyle
Business
Names
People
Know
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
― James Joyce
People
Trample
Flowers
Embrace
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
― Milan Kundera
People
Liberty
World
Unfree
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
― Milan Kundera
People
Stupidity
Answers
Everything
Answer
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
― Milan Kundera
Past
People
Want
Change
Masters
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
― Milan Kundera
Past
People
Political
Change
Better
Apathetic
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
― Milan Kundera
Lying
People
Ability
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
― John Steinbeck
Two
People
Changed
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
― John Steinbeck
People
Firsts
Moments
Rather
We make our own hell out of the people around us.
― Jean-Paul Sartre
People
Hell
Own
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
― Jean-Paul Sartre
Two
People
Community
Excluding
Third
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
― Paul Valéry
Books
Same
Enemies
People
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
― Mario Vargas Llosa
Convinced
Her
Loyalty
People
Feelings
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
― Salman Rushdie
People
Picture
Murmured
Frame
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
― Salman Rushdie
Societies
Motion
Comes
People
Existence
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
― Salman Rushdie
People
Whose
Tomorrow
Firm
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
― Hermann Hesse
Difficult
Youth
Example
People
The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.
― Hermann Hesse
Lively
People
Pretend
Grandfathers
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
― Hermann Hesse
Love
Young
People
Marriage
The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
― Federico García Lorca
Life
People
Spend
Bottled
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