"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."

Benjamin, Walter on Destructiveness
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"In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene."

Bresson, Robert on Nudity
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"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Melville, Herman on Originality
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"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Pleasure
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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

Drabble, Margaret on Pleasure
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"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s."

Ace, Goodman on Psychology
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"If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything."

Brown, Les on Purpose
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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

Bacon, Francis on Questions
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

Mahfouz, Naguib on Questions
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"Man will not live without answers to his questions."

Morgenthau, Hans J. on Questions
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"Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."

Bhagavad Gita on Reality
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"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place."

Birkman, Roger on Reality
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"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other."

Brahmanada, Swami on Reality
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

Buffett, Warren on Reputation
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"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."

Howe, Edgar Watson on Reputation
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"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."

Lee, Bruce on Reality
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"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."

Bradley, Francis H. on Nudity
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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

Campbell, Joseph on Myth
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"An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded."

Pope, Alexander on Excuses
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"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Davies, Robertson on Eyes
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"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

Bowen, Elizabeth on Fate
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"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."

France, Anatole on Human Nature
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on Insanity
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Insanity
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

Jung, Carl on Individuality
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"The best way to procure insults is to submit to them."

Hazlitt, William on Insults
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"He who puts up with insult invites injury."

Proverb, Jewish on Insults
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on Isolation
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"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."

Winfrey, Oprah on Intuition
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on Loneliness
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"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Meaning of Life
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"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

Battista, Orlando A. on Mistakes
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on Mistakes
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"In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love."

Lefebvre, Henri on Eroticism
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