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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the…
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The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put…
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Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized…
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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.…
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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance…
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We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams,…
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By seeing differently, we do differently
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I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of…
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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but…
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Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
— Honore de Balzac
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In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
— William Bernbach
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate…
— Clive Bell
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
— William Hazlitt
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
— Antoine Rivarol
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From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency…
— Mark Helprin
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No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I…
— Dalai Lama
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On her daughter Deva: I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the…
— Monica Bellucci
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and…
— William Shakespeare
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