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“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.”
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“Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command. So we just have to let the forgetting happen as it will; we shouldn't rush it, and we certainly should not doubt the genuineness of our forgiving if we happen to remember. The really important thing is that we have the power to forgive what we still do remember.”
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“To think is an act. To feel is a fact.”
Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
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“Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.”
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“I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.”
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“Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.”
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“What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.”
Source : "NSA files - Merkel and Hollande call for talks with US by end of year - live" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013. 
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“I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.”
Source : Source: collider.com
