Arthur Japin Quotes

• If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.

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  Pain, Forever, Tolerance

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• Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

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  Choices, Intuition, Remember

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• That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.

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  Honey, Matter, Things That Matter

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• I felt before I thought, as all humans do.

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  Humans, Felt

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• One can only learn what one doesn’t know.

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  Knows

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• My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!

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  Alive

  "'I was Casanova's very first lover'" by Laura Baggaley, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.

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• Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.

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  Pain, Writing, Simple

  "In Lucia's Eyes". Book by Arthur Japin, www.npr.org. 2006.

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• The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.

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