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You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#good #i #know #looking #objectively

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#british #british empire #could #disappeared #empire

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#always #clarity #greatest #lies #me

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#heaven #most #perfect #prayer #single

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#make #none #reason #sense #some

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#heretic #his #man #own #sees

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#being lazy #drinking #everything #except #lazy

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me. ↗

— Jared Leto

#early #examples #how #i #learned

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments. ↗

— Richard Lester

#early #emotional #moments #more #rather