Ben Lerner Quotes
When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
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The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten.
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A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
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I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.
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He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him
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Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
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Peter," she whispered and reached out, touching his cheek. "My little Peterbird? You flew back to me.
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Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.
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My life was still someone else's idea.
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Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
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When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
