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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of…
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and…
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good…
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can…
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt…
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It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely,…
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Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
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I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from…
— Roland Barthes
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We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than…
— Julian Barnes
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The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a…
— Thomas Mann
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In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at,…
— C.S. Lewis
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When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a…
— Tom Noonan
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One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
— Robert Gottlieb
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