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"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
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"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."

"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself."

"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse."

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

"When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that."

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
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