"The only history that matters is the history we know."
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"Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them."
"Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen."
"It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do."
"we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure."
"I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show."
"they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry."
"One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know."
"To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows."
"You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about."
"Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are."
"If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well."
"The eye sees more than the heart knows."
"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
"I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know."
"Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know."
"Give the best you have to the highest you know... and do it now."
"If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!"
"The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything."
"As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself to me, I will have Peace, and He will be near me and in me, and I will rest in Him."