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Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

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For the nature of women is closely allied to art

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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. Art

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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

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Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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The moment of change is the only poem.

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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

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