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Quotes by Writer
"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."
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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
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"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."
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"You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world that's inside you."
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"Fear envelops bones like new skin,envelops blood with night's skin,the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet -it is not your hair but the terror in your head,like long hair made of vertical nails,and what you see are not shattered streets,but rather, within you, your own crushed walls,your frustrated infinity, again the city comescrashing down: in your silence, only water's threatis heard, and in the waterdrowned horses gallop through your death."
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"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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"Life is like a train going in circles, the train is comfortable - it has nice scenery, it provides warmth and food & for most a loving atmosphere. Most of the people stay on the train there entire lives, maybe every now and again they may peep out the door, some might even get off only to quickly realise they want back on. Then you have the rare ones who I aspire to be, those who are bored of the train - to them - the thought of living without it, is risky but the reward of tasting life outside of doors and walls excite them enough to try."
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"When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before."
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"Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up."
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"If your outer world is shaky, go within."
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"When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe."
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"It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends."
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
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"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."
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"What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once."
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"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
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"A man should construct meaningful ideas at his own will if he wants to take citizenship responsibilty by helping others pursue their happiness."
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"But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone."
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"There is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure."
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"Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time."
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"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."
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"There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you're broken."
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"They'll tell you who they think you should be they'll even try to manipulate you into believing it but let me tell you something son, if I listened to who I was supposed to be - this, everything we are and do wouldn't be in existence. Be a leader, find yourself and make a life with it. Those who judge you and try to force the patterns of their beliefs onto you are envious they haven't the strength in themselves to do the same."
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"You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape."
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"Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant."
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"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
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"I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex."
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