My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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