"The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone."
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"There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is."
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"There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that."
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"It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern."
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"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."
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"When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be."
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"Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person."
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"I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore."
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"Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice."
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"People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind."
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"I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on."
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"There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact."
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"I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason."
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"Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all."
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"When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else."
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"Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely."
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"It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between."
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"Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers."
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"Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know."
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"In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying."
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