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I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's th...

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Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied whe...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days...

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visi...

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Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of pers...

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a pea...

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There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that u...

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we hav...

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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary,...

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Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to...

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He g...

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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you a...

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I lo...

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But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone...

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I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are ...

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal...

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That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is ...

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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in th...

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All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own person...

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There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut,...

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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal con...

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Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a cr...

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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiri...

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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers;...

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Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, a...

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My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exp...

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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...

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Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...

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There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private...

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Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want ...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagi...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people ha...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you...

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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, ...

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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do jus...

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One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has bro...

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Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hop...

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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I h...

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Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and pol...

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Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

I don't talk about my personal life in the press that's how I kept my wedding a secret.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

A man cannot dress without his ideas get clothed at the same time.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any me...

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The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when...

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordinati...

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Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a m...

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