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What, after all, is heaven, bu...

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The great secrets of being cou...

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

At court one becomes a sort of...

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Genius in the poet, like the n...

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Philosophy, while it soothes t...

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Love is on the verge of hate e...

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Jewelry and profuse ornaments ...

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Oratory, like the drama, abhor...

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

A fiction which is designed to...

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Wrap thyself in the decent vei...

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The cleverness of avarice is b...

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Out of the ashes of misanthrop...

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The classic literature is alwa...

The classic literature is always modern.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

It is the glorious doom of lit...

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Men of strong affections are j...

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Hobbies should be wives, not m...

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Genius, the Pythian of the bea...

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

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The veil which covers the face...

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

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More bounteous run rivers when...

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

That man will never be a perfe...

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....