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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.


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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.



We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.



We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.



To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.



Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.




Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.



I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.



The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.



The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.





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The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.

The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.



Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.



When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.



Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.

Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.



Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.



I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.



Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.

Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.



All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.



All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.



Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.




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