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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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Personal Development
"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
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Personal Development
"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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Personal Development
"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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Personal Development
"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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Personal Development
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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Personal Development
"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
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Personal Development
"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."
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Personal Development
"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."
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Personal Development
"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
Virtue
"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
History
"I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old."
Reflection
"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
Work
"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."
Time
"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."
Happiness
"Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day."
Society
"And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well."
Acceptance
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
Art
"During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything."
Reflection
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