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“I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”
Source : Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr
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“I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.”
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“Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.”
Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.”
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“When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child in trouble, I will extend my hand, both metaphorically and physically. I will offer my hand. To him. To her. To you. To the world. I will be a good citizen, a good partner in the endeaver of life that we all share.”
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“Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.”
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“There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.”
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“The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...”
Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY
