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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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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We are what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind…
— Unknown Author
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
— Socrates
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep…
— David Brooks
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We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.
— Robert Bloch
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Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because…
— Unknown Author
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Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and…
— Unknown Author
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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things…
— Adyashanti
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We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess.…
— K.P. Yohannan
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We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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