"I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves."
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"God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world."
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"I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen."
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"I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!"
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"This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store."
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"The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them."
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"I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful."
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"The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable."
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"I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself."
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"In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language."
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"You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse."
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"This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open."
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"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side."
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"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones."
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"Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God."
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"I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash."
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"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
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"Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth."
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"Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning."
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"The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous."
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