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“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”
Source: My Losing Season: A Memoir
“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Source: Salomé (1893)
“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”
Source: Pericles and Aspasia
“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
Misattributed
“A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.”
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1994)
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
Variant: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Source: Paradise Lost
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is:
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
Logic, deductive and inductive (1898), p. 351 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351
Misattributed
“Life is heavier than the weight of all things.”
“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
“Women are much more honourable than men.”
quoting April Ashley
"Complete Hero" (2009)
“Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“One must stand stiller than still.”
Regarding reverse time travel Through Space and Time