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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
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Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
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Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
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Hatred observes with more care than love does.
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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
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Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.