Doe Quotes
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A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
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That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
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Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.
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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.
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A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
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What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
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Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.
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Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes
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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
