"Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman."
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"One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed."
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""This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!"
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"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."
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"There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it."
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"While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press."
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"Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't."
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"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."
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"The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not."
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"The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!"
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"Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers."
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"There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good."
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"What does it say, 'I beat Meryl.'"
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"Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient."
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"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."
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"Truth does not belong to an individual."
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"He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him."
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"The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it."
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"You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does."
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"As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen."
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