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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices
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To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people show up and enjoy it. It leaves you with a very good feeling.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''
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Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
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