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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise

One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

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