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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
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He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input…
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The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man…
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If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible…
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When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees…
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in…
— Michel de Montaigne
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One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that…
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When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.
— Richard Harris
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Once a man sees what is possible and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds…
— Roosh V
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There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common…
— Hippocrates
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The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
— Terry Pratchett
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