"Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances."
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"I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children."
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"The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances."
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"Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character."
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"One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all."
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"Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances."
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"He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright."
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"Circumstances alter faces."
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"There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate."
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"The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances."
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"Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements."
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"There's a way out of every situation."
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"Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances."
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"External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind."
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"Under no circumstances should you lose hope."
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"We, too, must change as circumstances evolve."
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"Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere."
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"... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion."
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"Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances."
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"There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution."
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