"Life does not always gives us the choices that we want"
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"What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist."
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"The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore."
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"When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person."
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"I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid."
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"The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes."
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"A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity."
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"Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game."
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"Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go."
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"The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects."
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"There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid."
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"A man does not exist until he is drunk."
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"If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen."
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"Just because we are dead does not make us smart."
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"tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!"
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"I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now."
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"No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up."
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"A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously."
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"Might does not make right but it sure makes what is."
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"Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless."
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