This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life.

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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide

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The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

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A single day in my own shoe that is comfortable for me is better than 365 days in someone else's shoes that does not fit me at all. ― Israelmore Ayivor

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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. ― George Washington

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Beauty is a whore, I like money better. ― Michael Cunningham

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We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list. — Michelle Obama

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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. - Golda Meir

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