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"He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal."
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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

"Always we learn things and then we forget them."

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."

"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Tell the others right away, 'No, I don't want to watch TV! I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!"

"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."

"Higher education is an institution where you to take the responsibility of your own learning and your instructors will only lend you the knowledge. You should understand as a student in higher education that your instructors will not be held accountable for your failure because you are considered as a grown adult to make the decision whether or not you will take pride in your education and pursue career opportunities."
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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."


"When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different."


"Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, because only extroverts cry twice; I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her."


"Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur."


"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."


"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
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