Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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