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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
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The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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The great problems of life, including of course sex, are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are balancing and compensating factors that correspond to the problems which life confronts us with in reality. This is not matter for astonishment, since these images are deposits of thousands of years of experience of the struggle for existence and for adaptation.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
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