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“You see, dearI think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.”
“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”
“We are all poets, really.”
“What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not ...”
“Don't ... depend on current fashion or... popular opinion.”
“Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.”
“Nowadays it's more beneficial to act like a mutt, than understand reality.”
“....Because today people talk about their problems,not about solutions.”
“The biggest mystery of the people is "The People".”
“What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free ...”
“Society doesn't have values. People have values.”
“Power is Power," Bryan says."People want anything they think will give them an edge.”
“Some people embrace their gifts with gratitude. Others have no use for them and can think only of overcoming their weaknesses. Only their defects interest and challenge them. Thus those who hate pe...”
“..each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wondered why there was so much suffering and ugliness...”
“If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, wed live in a dull world.”
“I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.”
“The day you subscribe to being loved by everyone is the day you stop growing.”
“you can tell a lot about a person how they view sex.”
“What makes you different is the exact thing that makes you irreplaceable.”
“You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul.”
