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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Atoms Characteristics Incumbent Know
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Calls Consider Despise False
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty Eternity Gazing Itself
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Been Depth Ever Hour
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Appears Light Love Love Is
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Dream Ever Fear Goes
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Attention Become Blind Brings
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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Miracle Greater Sum Parts
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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Joy Mystery Anywhere Anytime
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

Character Complacent Contemplate Even
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

Accepted Attitude Because Beginning
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Also Different Human Metaphor
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Alert Awaits Choose Close
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Another Every Facts Gets
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There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Colors Important Notes Only
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Desire Loses Sense Urgency
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great His Language Limits
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Cult Future Genre Harmony
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Aims Attitude Defined Future
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Abrupt Divides Each Geography
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Almost Always Barbarian Condemnation
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

Almost Always Art Artist
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The Will Is Beast
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Women Education Work Income
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I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Destroy Nuclear Cataclysm Capacity
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Advice Against Battle Bible
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I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.
Fruits Labor Assets Creations
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

Admit Adult Adult Life Famous
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Betray Rich Night Small
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

American Literature British Source
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Feel Burning Demand Desire
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Another Bread Country Different
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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Its okay to take a LOSS in order to be the BOSS
Loss Boss Order
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

Angels Appear Directly Dreams
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Give Heed Lives Must
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Alchemy Founder Process Smith
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Finger Happiness Lays Never
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Any Become Country Demand
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Because Conscience Excess Feared
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Books Calls Immoral Own
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Any Calling Intimate Knowledge
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Bread Does Effort Force
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Contains Control Describing Every
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Because Book Cover Day
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Against Armed Changing Conquest
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

About Alumni Bothered Institution
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