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"I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?"
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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Personal Development
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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Personal Development
"Let no such man be trusted."
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Personal Development
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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Personal Development
"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
Life
"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."
Life
"There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men."
Man
"I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values."
Relationship
"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."
Perspective
"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
Friendship
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
Self-Awareness
"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
Dream
"When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes."
Heart
"You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat."
Time
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