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"I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and doesn't eat anything more than grass as far as I know, to live all the summer. Not an interesting life perhaps, but a very peaceful one."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction."
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Personal Development

"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
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"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
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"I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me."
Relationship

"What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance."
Life

"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
People

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Living

"Where there is murder, anything can happen."
Danger

"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
Time

"Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?"
Youth

"It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy."
Communication

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Existence
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