We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done … - Leo Tolstoy

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You know who your enemy is? You're the enemy. You sit there fat, sloppy, you watch your TV, and you kick back and you judge everybody as being wrong and bad, but you.

Leo Tolstoy

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

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A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up. . . They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.

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R. Kelly

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

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Charles Manson

You know who your enemy is? You're the enemy. You sit there fat, sloppy, you watch your TV, and you kick back and you judge everybody as being wrong and bad, but you.

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Harry Golombek

I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.

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Andrew X. Pham

Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.

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