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"Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance."

"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."

"Intelligence is not always the source of knowledge but love is."

"Often morality defines our inner philosophy."

"Knowledge can be borrowed but wisdom cannot because wisdom comes from experience."

"The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning."

"Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you."
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"I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat."

"At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless."

"Symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality."

"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."

"At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice does not pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer."

"Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct."

"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."
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