"Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot."
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"Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe."
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"To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is."
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"There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it."
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"Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience."
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"There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work."
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"The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist."
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"To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities."
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"He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire."
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"If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace."
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"The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality."
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"He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone."
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"If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live."
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"There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger."
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"...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it."
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"You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community."
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"Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'."
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"it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible."
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"If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there."
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"People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them."
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