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"Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain."
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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."
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"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."
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"I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land."
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"We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild."
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"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."
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"When I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment..."
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"Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy."
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"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
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"Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life."
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"What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen."
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"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Dream
"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
Communication
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
Focus
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Education
"Live the life you've dreamed."
Inspirational
"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"
Time
"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing, but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."
Psychology
"Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts."
Politics
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
Friendship
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Solitude
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