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"If there is a wasp in the room, I'd like to be able to see it."
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Personal Development

"Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly."
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Personal Development

"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."
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Personal Development

"It is not possible to know 'Who am I?' by 'doing'. 'Doing' (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, 'Who am I' cannot be known."
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Personal Development

"Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself."
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Personal Development

"The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind."
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Personal Development

"There is music the moment you start listening."
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Personal Development

"Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it."
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Personal Development

"Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?"
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Personal Development

"God is aware of the hypocrisy in the hearts of men."
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"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
Society

"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."
Mortality

"Hardship makes the world obscure."
Hardship

"How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature."
Literature

"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
Communication

"We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures."
Observation

"I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues."
Art

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
Movies

"Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows."
Observation

"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."
Humanity
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