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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."
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"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."
Criticism
"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."
Man
"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."
Wisdom
"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."
History
"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."
Art
"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
Art
"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
Love
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
Sense
"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."
Time
"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
Society
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