"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."

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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."

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"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

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"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."

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"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."

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"Deserve your dream."

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"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."

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"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."

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"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."

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"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."

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"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."

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