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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.


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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.



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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.



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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.



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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.



To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.



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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.



We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.





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It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.




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if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

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There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.




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