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"As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking."
Equality

"Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?"
Mortality

"For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not - Heaven help us - all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?"
Mind

"But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess - to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficult problem. No living poet has, I think, altogether solved it."
Solitude

"Just in case you ever foolishly forget, I'm never not thinking of you."
Love

"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes."
Truth

"Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself."
Empowerment

"She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one."
Identity

"The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of men and women forever. For we have to ask ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that procession, or don't we? On what terms shall we join that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men?...Let us never cease from thinking-what is this "civilisation" in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? What are these professions and why should we make money out of them? Where in short is it leading us, the procession of the sons of educated men?"
Society

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."
Reality
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"The fact differentiates the fake."
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Personal Development

"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."
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"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."
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"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."
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"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
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"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
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