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"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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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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"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
Change
"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
Soul
"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."
Beauty
"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."
Being
"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
Past
"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
Work
"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
Art
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
Art
"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
Beauty
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
Travel
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