"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
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"You can't get old without living."
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"You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity."
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"How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth."
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"I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world."
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"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."
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"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
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"Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum."
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"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
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"Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality."
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"There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity."
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"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."
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"The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision."
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"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
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"If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners."
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"It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand."
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"The art of art... is simplicity."
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"The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness."
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"He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul."
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"In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life."
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