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"Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things."
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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
"The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look."
"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."
"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"
"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."
"We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land."
"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
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"Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display."
"Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word."
"Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious."
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