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"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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Personal Development
"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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Personal Development
"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
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"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
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"Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets."
Regret
"I let him run on, this papier-mâché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried, I could poke my forefinger through him and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe."
Philosophy
"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."
Reality
"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."
Being
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
Man
"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."
Illusion
"He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself."
Struggle
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
Gossip
"They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
Ego
"Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams..."
Dreams
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