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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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Personal Development
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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Personal Development
"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."
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Personal Development
"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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Personal Development
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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Personal Development
"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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Personal Development
"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."
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Personal Development
"If I could find someone who would love me to the extent I do, I would love her to the extent she could never love me."
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Personal Development
"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."
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Personal Development
"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence."
Desire
"Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself."
Truth
"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
Friendship
"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"
Music
"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
Experience
"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious."
Forgiveness
"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so."
Poetry
"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head."
Creativity
"To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe."
Being
"Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts."
Life
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