"People do not retire. They are retired by others."

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"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."

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"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."

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"It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something."

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"Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees."

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."

"Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited."

"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."

"It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something."

"Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees."

"A man is a god in ruins."

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

"People do not retire. They are retired by others."

"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter."

"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never."

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."