“Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 217 of 303
“Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.”
“When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."”
“When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.”
“..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.”
“I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.”
“I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation”
“What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.”
“If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.”
“They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.”
“Please do not understand me too quickly.”
“Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.”
“Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.”
“An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.”
“The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.”
“I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.”
“We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.”
“We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.”
“Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.”
“The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.”