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"Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else."
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"Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don't believe your shame."
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"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."
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"[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."
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"We are what we believe we are."
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"Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear - than a fact that he wishes was an opinion."
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"Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled."
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"Some people are each envious of the person they used to be."
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"No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person."
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"You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it."
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"To say 'I want to have sex with this person' is to express a desire which is not intellectually directed in the way that 'I want to eradicate poverty in the world' is an intellectually directed desire. Furthernore, the gratification of sexual desire can only ever give temporary satisfaction. Thus as Nagarjuna, the great Indian scholar said: 'When you have an itch, you scratch. But not to itch at all is better than any amount of scratching."
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"Stephanie had no problem doing what shewas told, just so long as she was given a good reason why sheshould."
Advice
"But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake."
Lifestyle
"The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think."
Resilience
"The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves."
Lies
"Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives."
Mystery
"You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?"
Law
"We can do this the easy way,' Oblivious snarled. 'Or the hard way.''What's the easy way?''You leave immediately.''And what's the hard way?''We make you leave.'Skulduggery's head tilted. 'What was the easy way again?"
Conflict
"I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword."
Social
"Doors are for people with no imagination."
Creativity
"He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he struck, after all, snatching people's lives away. He'd always known that it was only a matter of time before one of those moment's worked against him."
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