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"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
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"Imitation cannot go above its model."
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"Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others."
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"The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free."
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"Imitation is a necessity of human nature."
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
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"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of pain."
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"The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
Effort
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
Idea
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination
"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
Nature
"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
Virtue
"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
Dream
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
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