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"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable."
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"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."

"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."

"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
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