Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
SYDNEY J. HARRISRegret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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