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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
Writing
"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."
Health
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
Imagination
"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
Creativity
"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."
Being
"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."
Creativity
"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over."
Time
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
Creativity
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
Humor
"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."
Virtue
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