Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
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No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he'd already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him— or, if so, what would happen when she did.
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
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I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
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We must be the world we want to create.
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I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.
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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
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Who has more leisure than a worm?
