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"Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity."
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"Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don't believe your shame."
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"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
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"Nothing will ever be solved if we wallow in the darkness of denial."
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"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."
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"[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."
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"I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling."
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"Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs."
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"We are what we believe we are."
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"Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear - than a fact that he wishes was an opinion."
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"We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission, a boat stays afloat until the water gets in."
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"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
Life
"In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write."
Faith
"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."
Man
"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation."
Growth
"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."
War
"The narrator refers to a character as 'an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them."
Power
"When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there."
Truth
"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."
Journey
"For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home."
Identity
"And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted, and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked."
Ego
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