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It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness

Mortifying Believe Unpopular
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Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

Opportunities Thanks Courage Wisdom
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Constraint Constraints Execution More
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Being Being Busy Busy Consciousness
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Altogether Childbirth Could Different
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

Always Appreciated Brutality Doubt
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Cash Ends Family First
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Dark Heart Inexorable Jailer
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The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
Easiest Person Deceive
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Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

Geometry Enlightens Intellect Set
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Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Age Just Life Old
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

Dark Explored Side Never
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I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

Always Amazed Anyone Interest
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All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind—it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement

Thought Mind Harbour Encouragement
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Cast Chains Enhances Free
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What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
Angle Behind Best Cut
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Always Bit Dying Every
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

About Act Bad Creative
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Ability Become Combinations Grasp
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Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.

Anyone Avoiding Bad Believe
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Cannot Having Itself Nature
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Border Country Love Should
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
Courage Endure Enemies Face
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You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

Everyone Guy ISee Know
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Achievements Ambiguity Awareness Deepest
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Education Leisure Liberal Liberal Education
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Between Conflict Hands Means
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

Ask Beliefs Believe God
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Absolute Acquired Artist Been
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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Been Before Door Got
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Another Guidance Immaturity Incapacity
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists

Gift Employing Vicissitudes Life
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

After Anyone Before Even
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Abuse Against Beauty Been
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When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

Exempt Look Lucky Outside
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I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

Anyone Great GreatTime IThink
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism Appraising Own value
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To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

Renewed Everything One ask Youth back
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Abuse Always Another Anything
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

Carry Argument Logical conclusion Life
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You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

Anything Assured Concerning Guidance
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I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

Apart Brother Family Feelings
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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands

About Beginning Casting Everything
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If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

According Become Belief Blind
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Quiet mind Possess Calm Spirit
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again

Again Baffled Begin Dry
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I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Artificial Could Criticism Dislike
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