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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be…
— Muhammad Ali
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In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This…
— P D Ouspensky
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You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were…
— Leo Rosten
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The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to…
— Ava Gardner
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Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.
— Timothy Hutton
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The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in…
— Glen Hansard
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The trouble with people is they don't understand people.
— Unknown Author
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There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.…
— Isaac Asimov
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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself…
— Robert Greene
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In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most…
— Thomas Bernhard
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The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you…
— Raf Simons
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