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"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."
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