"We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward."
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"I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper."
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"He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured."
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"Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars."
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"Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it."
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"There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it."
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"In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly."
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"I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream."
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"Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency."
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"It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more."
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"My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them."
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"She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop."
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"We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet."
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"Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions"
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"I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote."
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"A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance."
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"Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now."
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"The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife."
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"The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words."
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"Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps."
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