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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention, — Dorothea Lange
When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death. — Joseph Conrad
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. — Arnold Bennett
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence… — Edward Abbey
What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it. — John Banville
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough. — Henry Adams
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn… — Carl Rogers
Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons… — B.F. Skinner
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but… — B.F. Skinner
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails… — Will Durant
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one… — Thucydides
When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to… — Rafael Nadal
When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could… — Rafael Nadal
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has… — Eugene Ionesco
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking… — Robert Rauschenberg
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. — F. H. Bradley
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. — Carlo Goldoni
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop,… — A B Yehoshua
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… — Mary Augusta Ward
As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think. — Emile M. Cioran

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