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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
De ondraaglijke lichtheid van het bestaan (1984) -
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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