The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. — William James

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - Alphonse de Lamartine

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot. - Leigh Brackett

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. ― Scott Westerfield

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. - Simone de Beauvoir

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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. - Simone de Beauvoir

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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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