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"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much, but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
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"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
"When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide."
"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage."
"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."
"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."
"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."
"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."
"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
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