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“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
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“You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.”
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“Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?”
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“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.”
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“Death is a part of this life
and not the next.”
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and not the next.”
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“To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.”
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“It is never good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.”
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“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
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“The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we will never see.”
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“Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.”
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“Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.”
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“To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast in a part we don't even know we are playing.”
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“Life often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.”
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“Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words”
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“Seeing through is rarely seeing into.”
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“What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.”
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“He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays in life.”
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“It is never any good dwelling on good-bys. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.”
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“The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.”
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“We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.”
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“It is easier to be generous than to be just.”
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“Attributing our own temptations to others, we give them credit for victories they have never won.”
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“Winter draws what summer paints.”
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“Blessed are those that give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
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“It is sometimes the man that opens the door who is the last to enter the room.”
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