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"Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry."
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"Over complication only confuses the essence of things."

"Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness."

"Adorn yourself with modest dressing."

"Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity."

"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"

"If you're under stress, your life is complex. Simplify your life to reduce the stress."

"A cup of tea is all I need to keep working."

"The spoon's color does not change the soup's taste."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. "By making him suffer, he said."Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?..."

"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."

"Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane."

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."

"He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there."'How about my present?' she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing."Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!"No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use. Not this evening, I'm afraid."All right, Dora, don't you worry. You'll get your two quid all right. We aren't paying by results."He made a clumsy gesture. 'Here, give us that bottle. That bottle off the dressing-table.'"Dora brought it. Ah, that's better. That at least doesn't fail."

"A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes."
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