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"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
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"Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy."
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"The key is to keep charisma and charm positive and underpinned with sincere and good intentions."
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"People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor-an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth."
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"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."
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"I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next."
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"She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself-- then bring it back and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more."
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"You're such a cynic," Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute."
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"She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She's always ready to laugh."
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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
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"I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony."
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"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."
Writing
"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
Time
"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
Argument
"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
Writing
"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
Writing
"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
Personality
"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
Dream
"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays."
Philosophy
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
Being
"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."
Trouble
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