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"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
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"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."
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"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."
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"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
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"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
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"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."
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"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
Democracy

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
Creativity

"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."
Creativity

"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."
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