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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true…
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if…
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All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot…
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Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds…
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The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
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In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes…
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and…
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if…
— Anthony Storr
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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public…
— James Madison
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An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best…
— Thomas Paine
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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with…
— John of Kronstadt
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
— Ivan Turgenev
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,…
— Oscar Wilde
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Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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