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"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh."
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"You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!"
"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."
"A danger foreseen is half avoided."
"Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected."
"There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones."
"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."
"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul."
"When we take the time to break free from the tyranny of Time and learn to listen to the sound of unspoken words, we discern the hot air behind the frenzy of the wheeling and dealing around. ['Wheeling and dealing']"
"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
"When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you."
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"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."
"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."
"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."
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