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• We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Real, Psychics

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• A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Teaching, Leaving

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• Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

  Rajneesh

  Personality, Individuality, Given

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• It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

  Martial

  Past, Looks, Pleasure

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• Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Quiet, Should

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• While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

  Thomas Hood

  Joy, Bells, Tunes

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• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Editors, Journalism

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

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• In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Childhood

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.816, Hamilton Books

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• Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Judging, Listening

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• People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Thinking, People, Should

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• Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Eye, Men, Mirrors

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 371, 2006.

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• Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love Life, Giving, Amusement

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.

  Sophia Loren

  Encouragement, Couple, Writing

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• In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mother, Creativity, Gestation

  Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”

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• For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.

  Lucretius

  Lying, Blood, Mind

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• To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

  Jean Rostand

  Eye, Artist, Inspire

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

  Jane Austen

  Reading, Years, Two

  Jane Austen (2015). “Northanger Abbey”, p.79, Cumulus Publishing Limited

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• I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Humanity, Humans

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Moving, Games, Play

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• And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Real, Thinking, Psychics

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• When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

  Claude Monet

  Nature, Looks, Down And

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

  Claude Monet

  Sea, Relaxation, Exhausted

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

  Nancy Mitford

  Children, Waffles, Firsts

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• As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

  Pamela Anderson

  Baby, Pain, Cutting

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• Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loneliness, Two, Solitude

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