"When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works."
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"... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity."
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"It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is."
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"A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent."
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"music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to."
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"Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration."
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"What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity."
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"Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message."
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"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer."
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"Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes."
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"When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought."
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"Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow"
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"Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees"
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"We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes."
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"Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military."
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"He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words."
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"The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life."
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"Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things."
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"Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present"."
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"Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable."
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