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"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
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Personal Development

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

"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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Personal Development

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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Personal Development

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

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
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Personal Development

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

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

"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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Personal Development

"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."
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"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion."
Being

"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
Events

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
Death

"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
Life

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
Autobiography

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
Thought

"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
Experience

"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
Dream

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
Photography

"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
Dogs
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