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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Drink Eat Live Only
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Explain God Idea Live
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Become Facts Legends Make
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Chiefly Good Good Life Life
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Agree Deficient Deserve Lives
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Against Asked Bite Religion
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Celibacy Course He Man
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Bait Beauty Delight His
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

About Been Difficulty Examining
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Beginning Dimensions Finishes Happen
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

About Always Because Books
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Catholic Childhood Last Sense
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Always Work Being Belong
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
End Following God Him
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Feel Free Living Only
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Armed Combat Decide Engage
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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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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Gets Interesting Lives Way
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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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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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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Becomes Everything Face Little
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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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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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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Danger First Greatest Greatest Danger
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Force Live Moral Out
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Belittle Created Mystery Something
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Alone Concept Doom Invented
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Between Bottom Enmity Indifference
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Because Believe Hard Obey
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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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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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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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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Before Dad Dream His
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Always Dominant Expresses Life
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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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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Am Because Believe Cannot
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

About Beautiful Beautiful Things Heard
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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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If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Actually Gain Huge I Can
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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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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I don't care if all girls are after money, God please don't let me meet one that will be after my life.

Money Girls Life Meet
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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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