W. G. Sebald Quotes
We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
Quotes to Explore
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.
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I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.
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A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
