"Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess."
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"What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti."
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"Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back."
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"wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state"
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"The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does."
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"I never made any reference to John Podesta's email.Does it say #WikiLeaks, #Assange? Julian Assange said, Stone predicted that his emails would be hacked. No, I didn't. I never said anything of the kind."
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"If the world does not please you, you can change it."
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"Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love."
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"E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)"
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"Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed."
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"One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling."
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"Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant."
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"Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut."
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"Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal."
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"Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence."
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"You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that."
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"Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist."
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"Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken."
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"If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool."
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"He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken."
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