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"Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home."
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"The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources."
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"A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble."
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"The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
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"It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you."
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"Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being."
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"Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said."
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"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
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"When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it."
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"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."
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"There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing."
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"Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried."
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"He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves."
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"Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do."
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"Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel."
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"Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home."
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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time."
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"No man as godly as George, the only fault he finds with God is that he made folk with too few orifices. If George could meet a woman with a quinny under her armpit, he would call out 'Glory be' and set her up in a house and visit her every day, until the novelty wore off. Nothing is forbidden to George, you see. He'd go to it with a terrier bitch if she wagged her tail at him and said bow-wow.'For once he is struck silent. He knows he will never get it out of his mind, the picture of George in a hairy grapple with a little ratting dog."
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"Fabre looked up, his mobile face composed. "Good-bye," he said. "Georges-Jacques--study law. Law is a weapon."
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