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“Sweet meat must have sour sauce.”
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“I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.”
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“Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.”
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“The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.”
Source : "The Outsider". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 231, 1956.
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“Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.”
Source : Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.1, Penguin Books India
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“I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.”
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“It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.”
Source : Wajdi Mouawad (2002). “Alphonse, Or, The Adventures of Pierre-Paul-René, a Gentle Boy with a One-note Voice who was Never Surprised by Anything”
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“Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government.”