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"I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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Personal Development

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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Personal Development

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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"The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it's the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world."
Love

"I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion."
Character

"Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself."
Life

"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."
Love

"The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct."
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"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."
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"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?"
Time

"One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life."
Life

"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."
Truth
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