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"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
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Personal Development
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
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Personal Development
"How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?"
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Personal Development
"Knowledge will help you to solve any problem."
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Personal Development
"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
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Personal Development
"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."
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Personal Development
"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."
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Personal Development
"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
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Personal Development
"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."
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"Only by learning the truth-whatever that truth might be-could people be given the right kind of power."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
Sociology
"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
Life
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
Truth
"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt."
Character
"To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better."
Art
"AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them."
Awareness
"In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it."
Art
"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."
Art
"I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path."
Self
"The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community."
Society
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