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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."
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Personal Development

"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."
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Personal Development

"Ignorance is the darkest depths."
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Personal Development

"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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Personal Development

"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
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Personal Development

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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Personal Development

"Life is all about discovery."
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Personal Development

"Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing."
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Personal Development

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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Personal Development

"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."
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Personal Development
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"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."
Existence

"I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading."
Time

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."
Home

"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
Literature

"Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths-until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about."
History

"And yet I shall try again: "they are murdering me!"--all right, all together once more: "they are murdering me!" and again: "murdering"... I want to write this in such a way that you will cover your ears, your membranaceous, simian ears that you hide under strands of beautiful feminine hair--but I know them, I see them, I pinch them, the cold little things, I worry them with my fingers to somehow warm them, bring them to life, render them human, force them to hear me."
Emotion

"One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that-well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but-well-some day, any day, you will not come to live with me? I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope''No,' she said smiling, 'no.''It would have made all the difference,' said Humbert Humbert.Then I pulled out my automatic-I mean, this is the kind of fool thing a reader might suppose I did. It never even occurred to me to do it."
Emotion

"Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds."
Technology

"Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this."
Love

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
Talent
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