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"But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary."
Love
"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man."
Man
"I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had."
Rest
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives."
People
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."
Art
"The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought."
Thought
"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."
Equality
"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide."
Beauty
"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."
Positive
"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
Love
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"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."
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Personal Development
"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
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Personal Development
"Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life."
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Personal Development
"If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience."
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Personal Development
"How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you."
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Personal Development
"In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset."
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"Everything is happening according to the 'drawing' [past causes], You just have to 'see' them. Desires are 'drawings' too."
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"O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known."
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"Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague."
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"To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?"
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