Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
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No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.
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I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.
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If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
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I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.
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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
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I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.
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A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. So as you keep thinking this thought, you keep vibrationally attracting relative to that thought. So you confirm your own beliefs again and again and again and again and again. That's why someone who believes in cancer can confirm that belief, or someone who believes in robbery can confirm that belief. So everything is a sort of confirmation of belief.
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
