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"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"
"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."
"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"
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"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."
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