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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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Personal Development
"Nothing can come of nothing."
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
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"There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
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"But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad. He was eloquent. I pointed out that I was not sad. That was a mistake. Your papers, he said, I knew it a moment later. Not at all, I said, not at all. Your papers! he cried. Ah my papers."
Ethics
"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
Intelligence
"But we know that we are no longer the same, and not only know that we are no longer the same, but know in what we are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep on adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or egg collection."
Philosophy
"Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen."
Philosophy
"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
Beginning
"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."
Writing
"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."
Friendship
"Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application."
Psychology
"There's never an end for the sea."
Nature
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
Persistence
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