Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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