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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
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As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
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Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
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I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
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Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
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Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
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Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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