"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."
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"It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down."
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"In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice."
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"As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present."
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"No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it."
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"In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him."
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"(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write."
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"Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does."
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"In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites."
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"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."
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"Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do."
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"It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters."
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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards"
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"No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants"
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"It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature."
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"What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin."
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"You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"
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"If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together."
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"No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred."
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"Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!"
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