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"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."
Nature
"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
Experience
"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
Soul
"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
Experience
"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
Humor
"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
Being
"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."
Success
"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."
Education
"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
Self-Worth
"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
Death
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