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Quotes by Author
"The process of life, towards the whole truth can only be covered, by absolutely dropping yourself. You can only merge into the whole, if you prepare to lose yourself."
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"I fear that someday you will abandon the joys we share and find another not worthy of your charms."
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"The investments of your youth, are drafts upon your old age. Invest sheer poetry in yourself."
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"The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others."
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"You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you."
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"They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable."
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"The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation."
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"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding."
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"Now it's computers and more computersand soon everybody will have one,3-year-olds will have computersand everybody will know everythingabout everybody elselong before they meet them.nobody will want to meet anybodyelse ever againand everybody will bea recluselike I am now."
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"The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons."
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"Observe your imperfections. Love them. Then move through them."
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"The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility."
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"I'm afraid i'll lose you if i share all that's real.i'm afraid i'll lose myself if i don't."
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"Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both."
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"People who copy you will always be one step behind."
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"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."
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"Like an energy even an opportunity cannot be destroyed, if you don't accept, it goes to someone else."
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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
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"It's rude to stare," said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in exactly the same way that water closes over a stone. "Is it? Why?" asked Rincewind. How does he hold himself together, his mind screamed at him. Why doesn't he spill?"
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"Big thinking precedes great achievement."
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"All goals are not created equal, the size of the goal matters but it isn't as important as the passion behind the goal."
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"Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature's beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation."
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"Being prepared not only reduces our stress level and keeps us from looking stupid, but it builds the confidence that other people have in us that we are dependable, reliable and can be counted upon."
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"Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it."
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"She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory.She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace."
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"Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up."
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"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
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"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."
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"Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live."
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"A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!"
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"It was part of your religion to hate the British."
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"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."
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"At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding."
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"God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees."
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"I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always."
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"When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you."
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