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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Behavior Happiness Oneself
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
Women can’t forgive failure.
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Failure Forgiveness One Liner Woman
For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Difference God People Philosophy Religious
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Beautiful Character Dress Face People Thinking Way
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Action Discussion Hero Himself Mindset State
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Aptitude Born Fact Faith Spirit Talent Yourself
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Culture Fortunate Himself Man
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish

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