"But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world."
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"Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad."
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"Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush."
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"We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all."
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"Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you."
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"Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here."
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"The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same."
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"Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of."
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"What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it."
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"If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already."
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"Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks."
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"Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens."
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"For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured."
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"[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you."
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"Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point."
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"O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee."
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"Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable."
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"Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie."
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"There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them."
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"Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed."
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