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"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
"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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Personal Development
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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Personal Development
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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Personal Development
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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Personal Development
"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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Personal Development
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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Personal Development
"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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Personal Development
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable."
Being
"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
Architecture
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
Architecture
"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became."
Architecture
"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
Beauty
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