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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.
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Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
The facts: a novelist's autobiography (1989) -
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
Never Let Me Go ch.23 -
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Animal Dreams -
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
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Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
The Middle Ground (2013) 103 -
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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