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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."
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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."
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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."
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"War grows out of ordinary human nature."
Conflict
"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
Philosophy
"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."
Love
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Life
"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
Ethics
"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."
War
"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
Science
"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept."
Awareness
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
Reading
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
Education
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