"Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself."
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"The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence."
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"If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!"
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"I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit."
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"I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for."
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"Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it."
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"Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are."
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"one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep."
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"what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry?"
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"I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them."
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"A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter."
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"I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly."
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"Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies."
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"Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being."
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"Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling."
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"Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions."
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"And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine."
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"For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening."
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"Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion."
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"Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being."
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