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"We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence."
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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
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"An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle, its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball."
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"Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources."
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"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."
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"It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a "Christian" but the truth is we respond from very different world-views."
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"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be."
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"It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!?"
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It's the least you can do, really, as a polite guest."
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"In lieu of fixating upon details of our life which can lead to sadness or madness, we achieve an enhanced perspective regarding the perplexity haunting our being by thinking abstractedly, a process that allows us to discern the essential principles of life."
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
Time
"Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people as much as the artist. But they do not see it because they are not trying to shed light on it."
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"I have built, deep in my heart, a chapel filled with you."
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"Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world."
Emotion
"After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith,..."
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"A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan."
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"Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life, it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit."
Spiritual
"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
Love
"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
Knowledge
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time
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