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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

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The first duty of love is to listen.

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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

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