"You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth."

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"You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth."

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Knowledge is intellectual art."

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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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"Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure."

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