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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not…
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts…
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from…
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what…
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
— Mary Browne
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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities,…
— Albert Camus
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You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.
— Sally Jessy Raphael
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Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.
— Ivor Cutler
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Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
— Morrie Schwartz
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
— Aristotle
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
— Jean Cocteau
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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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I'm just your everyday woman who is trying to feel good and be healthy for her daughter, her fiancé, and herself.
— Jessica Simpson
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is ours except time.
— Seneca the Younger
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