"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

Beginning, Difference, Result

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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

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"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."

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"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

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"Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history."

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"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning."

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"No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."

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"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile."

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"Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil."

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"For the dead and the living, we must bear witness."

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"I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it."

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"We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not."

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