Rene Descartes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
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You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.
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I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.
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A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.
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He lives well who is well hidden.
