"Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever."
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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy."
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"Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer."
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"Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much."
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"Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds."
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"In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw."
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"A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind."
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"The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work."
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"The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope."
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"The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind."
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"There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life."
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"The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for."
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"If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it."
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"Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to."
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"I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing."
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"I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper."
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"The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity."
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"What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance"
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"I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death."
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