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"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."
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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
Poems
"Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want."
Relationship
"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters."
Civilization
"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."
Being
"The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time."
Time
"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself."
Life
"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
Society
"An answer is always a form of death."
Death
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
World
"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
Love
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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