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"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company."
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"Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is)."

"Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life's experience."

"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."

"Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore."

"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."

"To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement-it is the underpinning!"

"Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ['When forgetting the rules of the game']"

"As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real."

"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."

"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"
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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."

"It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly."

"With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection."

"You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure."

"But I can't see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented."
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