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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
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"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores."
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"I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book."
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"More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray."
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"A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul."
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"When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough."
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"I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem."
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"I'm fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high."
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"Smiling and Expressions of Emotion. A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, and encouraging. People do read a book by its cover and your expressions provide a glimpse for what they'll find inside."
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"It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout."
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"Smiling is one of your most powerful non-verbal behaviors. People do read a book by its cover and these expressions provide glimpses into what they will find inside."
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"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."
Wisdom

"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
Joy

"Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance."
Self

"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."
Future

"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
Fate

"I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better."
Mind

"The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress."
Life

"D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action."
Philosophy

"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
Identity

"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."
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