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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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"The greatest treasures are books."
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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."
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"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
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"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."
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"The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing "alive and kicking" dreams."
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"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."
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"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!"
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"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."
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"Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on."
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"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."
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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."
Life
"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
Life
"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."
Philosophy
"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."
Spiritual
"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
Love
"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."
Science
"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
Sensitivity
"The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing."
Nature
"Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing."
Philosophy
"Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you."
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