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"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
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"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."
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"What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction."
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"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
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"We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing."
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"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
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Personal Development
"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."
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"If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win."
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"If you are explaining, you are losing."
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"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
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"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
Death
"Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems..."
Spiritual
"And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together."
Philosophy
"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."
Perspective
"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
Morality
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
Intelligence
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
Travel
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Music
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
Intelligence
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