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"I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values."
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"Marriage is a sacred-commitment."
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
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"Parent greatest gift to their children is their bond of love."
"It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic - as if God no sooner saw two of His creatures happy than He stopped it ('None of that here!'). As if He were like the Hostess at the sherry-party who separates two guests the moment they show signs of having got into a real conversation. But it could also mean 'This had reached its proper perfection. This had become what it had in it to be. Therefore of course it would not be prolonged.' As if God said, 'Good; you have mastered that exercise. I am very pleased with it. And now you are ready to go on to the next."
"Those who don't care about the positive side of you, are too dangerous to have on your side."
"They said, "You'll never find someone like me again!" I thanked them for wishing me well."
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."
"Try not to be the kind of friend who only makes friends when in desperate need of financial help."
"The key to every human heart is love."
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"The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth."
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
"Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly."
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."
"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
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