"Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness."
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"One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered."
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"Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write"
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"Nature distributes her favors unequally."
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"It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches."
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"Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life."
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"O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote."
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"...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)"
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"Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties."
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"Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop."
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"Where love is absent there can be no woman."
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"Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again."
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"I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion."
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"The mind has no sex."
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"You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder..."
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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
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"Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable."
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"The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes."
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"Our work can never be better than we are ourselves."
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"The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!"
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