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Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
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Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
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Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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Luxury
Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
And odious Pride a Million more;
Envy it self, and Vanity,
Were Ministers of Industry;
Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10 -
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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