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"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness."
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"The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul."
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"The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?"
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"The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up-flaked up, with rose-water snow."
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"Learn to see what you are looking at."
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"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."
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"You know what it's like when a cart overturns in the street? Everybody you meet has witnessed it. They saw a man's leg sliced clean off. They saw a woman gasp her last. They saw the goods looted, thieves stealing from the back-end while the carter was crushed at the front. They heard a man roar out his last confession, while another whispered his last will and testament. And if all the people who say they were there had really been there, then the dregs of London would have drained to the one spot, the gaols emptied of thieves, the beds empty of whores, and all the lawyers standing on the shoulders of the butchers to get a better look."
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"Looking up at [the sky], I think about the October evening world, where 'people' must be going about their lives. Beneath that pale autumn light, they must be walking down streets, going to the store for things, preparing dinner, boarding trains for home. And they think--if they think at all--that these things are too obvious to think about, just as I used to do (or not do)."
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"The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes."
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"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school."
Home
"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
World
"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types."
Power
"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
Emotional
"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me."
Emotional
"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."
Appearance
"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself."
Strength
"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty."
Life
"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."
Love
"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."
Time
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