"Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Understood Quotes

“We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.”
“We'll all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health when someone else isn't paying for the consequences of those choices.”
“As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.”
“My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.”
“I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.”
“He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.”
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
“Commitment to love - to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will.”

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