"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

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Simone Weil

#Lying Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #Doors Quotes

“The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform”
“That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity me? Up until now, I was just powerless and pitiful to you. So you thought I'd take any helping hand offered to me. Right?”
“Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.”
“Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.”
“I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.”
“If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.”

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