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"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

"Our differences are the real treasures."
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"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined."

"All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!"

"Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together."

"On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room."

"Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system."
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