"Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table."
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"Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows)."
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"Believing that your parents are always right."
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"Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive."
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"Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition.""
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"Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom."
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"Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire."
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"Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention)."
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"Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money."
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"I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can't have answers for everything."
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"So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don't know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers."
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"In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result."
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"Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery."
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"I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in."
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"People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results."
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"Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field."
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"I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants."
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"Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force."
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"If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished."
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"I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong."
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