"Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave."

-- Propertius

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“Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.”
“In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.”
“Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one youâ€™ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.”
“A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.”
“Youâ€™ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky.”
“It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.”
“Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.”
“You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”

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