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“I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.”
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“Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?”
Source : Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books
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“Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.”
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“My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.”
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“But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.”
Source : Joseph Needham (2013). “The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West”, p.176, Routledge
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“You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.”
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“I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.”
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“The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.”
