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"There is a common superstition that 'self-respect is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation."
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"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
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"Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth."
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"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."
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"Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads."
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"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."
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"1. "Being able to depend on a person's integrity lays a solid foundation for a relationship built on trust, both in business and in life."
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"Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you."
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"It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package."
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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
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"Your integrity may disgrace your pride at the time you don't think but that doesnt mean you should stop. You'll have to accept and move on with your life in the way it is."
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"More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child's primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living."
Society
"It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive."
Creativity
"My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still get up in the morning and send out the laundry. I would still plan a menu for Easter lunch. I would still remember to renew my passport. Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life."
Emotion
"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
Poverty
"I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world."
Philosophy
"Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone."
Discipline
"Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car.They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it."
Awareness
"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come."
Philosophy
"Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored."
Life
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."
Knowledge
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