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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

About Around Each How
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Accord Apply Death Directly
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A Good Man After Death Either
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Compensation Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Beat Deeper Down Integrity
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Common Common Denominator Denominator Equalizer
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Cunning Exile Ideas Keep
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Life Meaning Measure Modern
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Advances Between Connection Develop
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Considered Dangerous Jail Repressive
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Act Fantasies Massive Never
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Begins Birth Could Cry
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Boredom Despairing Evil Oneself
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Absurd Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Creates Does God He
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
His Made Man Only
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Discover Forces Hidden Life
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

About Complaint Even Me
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Becomes Divine Forget Greater
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Accompanied Death Die Enjoyment
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Always Being Discovers Finally
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You have been praying for your leaders and their families, it's time you pray for yourself and your family; you too deserve to live.

Praying Leaders Families Pray
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Let us take control of our situation instead of being afraid, for Satan, the cause of crisis, has been defeated.
Satan Control Instead Afraid
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Have I Decided 2020
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For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

For Me Money Not
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Nothing in life is promised except death.

Nothing Life Is Promised
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

School Teacher Facial Features
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

They Say Can Rap
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Pretty Calculating Take Stuff
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Would Never Want Book
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

Will Go Down As
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

My Message Isn't Perfectly
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Don't Have Be Scared
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Aggression Culture Disposition Independent
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Able Answer Answered Been
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Civilization First Founder Human
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Certain Certain Degree Degree Drive
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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Against Love Never Suffering
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The goal of all life is death.

Death Goal Of Life
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Become Idea Long Men
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Been Call Degree Happiness
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Derives Desires Fact Falls
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Enmity Made Merely Misused
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Analogy Decide Feel Home
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Away Complain Defend Her
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