Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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We're very disappointed to see that the United States Coast Guard has chosen to use firearms against refugees coming from Cuba. These are people who are desperate, and they're coming here not so much for a better life, but to leave behind a nightmare that exists in Cuba from the government of Castro.
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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
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The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu
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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.
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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
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We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
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Even the longest hours come to an end.
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Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday.
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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
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need to do more to explain the true dimension of what is at stake, and the nature of the solutions which only Europe can bring.
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In Mexico we have a word for sushi Bait.
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Happiness is a way of praying.
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Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
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Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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When you tell the truth, people listen.
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Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
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