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William Blake
Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite.
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Mark Twain
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Seneca
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
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Betty Friedan
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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T.S. Eliot
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Belva Plain
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire
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Logan Pearsall Smith
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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Sallust, The War with Catiline
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
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David Brin, on power and corruption
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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Marcel Proust
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Essay on Self-Reliance
To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Woody Allen
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
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