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"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
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"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."
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"An important part of dressing for success is not only wearing something well but making sure it is appropriate for the occasion or the environment."
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"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."
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"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."
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"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."
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"Criticism of one's appearance hurts, no matter what."
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"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
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"Beauty can be treacherous."
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"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."
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"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"
Faith
"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."
Peace
"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
Teaching
"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."
Mortality
"You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan."
Journey
"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."
Knowledge
"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
Aging
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."
Psychology
"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."
Life
"A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE: Tell me what to do, but it must be what I want you to tell me."
Philosophy
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