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"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."
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"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
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"All knowledge hurts."
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
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"Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it."
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"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."
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"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you."
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"Never, never, never give in!"
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"Looking is the nature of wisdom."
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"Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma."
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"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
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"Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them."
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"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."
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"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."
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"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
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"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
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"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
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