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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."
"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"
"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"
"Life is a journey. If you can't walk, journey with your thoughts and imaginations."
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
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"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
"The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret."
"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
"There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."
"Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel."
"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."
"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
"He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives."
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
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