"The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being."
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"The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable."
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"Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person."
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"The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process."
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"One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound."
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"To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are."
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"While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder."
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"In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!"
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"What I am to be, I am now becoming."
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"The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country."
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"Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected."
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"I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."
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"Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great."
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"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."
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"The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming."
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"You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating."
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"I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition."
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"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."
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