"Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him."
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"Wish that everything should come about just as it does."
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"The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic."
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"If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands."
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"The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others."
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"Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are."
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"Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood."
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"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."
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"A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it."
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"It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it."
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"The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief."
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"You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind."
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"if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search."
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"If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions."
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"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it."
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"The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies."
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"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
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"There is no wish more natural than the wish to know."
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"You cant help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action."
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"I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen."
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