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"Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?"
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
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"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
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"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
People

"I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams."
Memory

"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
Success

"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
Man

"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
Insight

"There are no second acts in American lives."
Politics
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