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"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you."
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"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

"The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn."

"The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions."

"To know 'as it is' is Real Knowledge (Gnan)."
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"And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading."

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."

"Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit."

"Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumour, and rumours are hard to pin down."

"I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define."

"Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer."
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