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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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"The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation."
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"Imitation is a necessity of human nature."
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"Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of pain."
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"The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
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"I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up."
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"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
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"I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries."
Being

"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone."
Power

"I don't want to be a tree, I want to be its meaning."
Philosophy

"My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions."
Creativity

"After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?"
Art

"Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness."
Emotional

"What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either."
Philosophy

"I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of life that while I was here, inside my body was a soul, a meaning, that all things were made of desire, touch, and love, that what I was suffering was composed of the same elements."
Introspection

"I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city."
People

"The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any."
Art
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