"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

Being, Man

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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

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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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"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

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"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

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"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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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."

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"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

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"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."

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"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon."

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

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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."

"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."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."

"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings."

"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."