"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."

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"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."

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"Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about."

Time

"Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness."

Life

"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."

Being

"Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war."

War

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Being is more important than doing."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

Being, Man, Woman

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."

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"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."

"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it."

"The woman who loves always smells good."

"Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."

"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity."

"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."

"Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."

"Being is more important than doing."

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."