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"There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life."
"Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether."
"This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy."
"Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that."
"Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city."
"That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience."
"Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself."
"A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train."
"Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own."
"Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty."
"The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth."
"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."
"Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one Life. Anyone who has not fulfilled that life must step down the Truth, and when he does that, he is unconsciously betraying the Truth."
"For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur."
"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."
"There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types."
"I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures."
"It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person."
"You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different."
"There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately."
