"Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am."
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"The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed."
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"Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness."
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"Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself."
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"Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself."
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"I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life."
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"A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest."
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"When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man."
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"This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air."
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"Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors."
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"If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity."
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"Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear."
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"He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things."
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"Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain."
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"The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind."
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"A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
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"Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves"
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"Inside of every problem lies an opportunity."
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"Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived"."
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"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."
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