"[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time."
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"A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long."
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"Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invented early enough to have photographed him, most Bardolators would choose the photograph. This is not just because it would presumably show what Shakespeare really looked like, for even if the photograph were faded, barely legible, a brownish shadow, we would probably still prefer it to another glorious Holbein. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross."
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"In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one."
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"I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets."
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"We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best."
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"With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?"
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"Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom."
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"I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas."
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"There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period."
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"A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss."
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"So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."
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"Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody."
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"Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: "Thou art That", "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!""
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"Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external."
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"Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom."
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"Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe."
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"So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way."
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"I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes."
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"I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money."
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