"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

Attention, Impossibility, Man, Obsession

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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Attention, Power, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

Attention,

"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going."

Phil Crosby, American Author

Attention,

"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."

Susan Boyle, British Musician

Attention, Brothers, Film, Friends

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary

Attention, Force, Liberty, Nothing

"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."

John Elway, American Athlete

Attention,

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

Jeff Gannon, American Journalist

Attention, Help

"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."

Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian Athlete

Attention,

"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

Ben Okri, Nigerian Poet

Attention,

"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

Attention,

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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

Death

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

Suicide

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

Death

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

Self-Awareness

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

Speech

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Delight

"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."

Freedom

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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going."

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."

"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."

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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

"We inhabit a language rather than a country."

"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."

"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."