Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director, Screenwriter
"A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something."
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Renounce
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Tracy Chapman
Singer-Songwriter
"Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"One has renounced the great life when one renounces war."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love."
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"Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain."
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"In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love."
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"The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are."
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"To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician."
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"We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us."
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"That which you cannot express is Love. That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty. That which you cannot avoid is the Truth."
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"None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live."
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"Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes."
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"I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether."
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"Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love."
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