"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."

Cocteau, Jean on lies and lying
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"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on lies and lying
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"If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it."

Franklin, Billy Boy on lies and lying
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."

Fromm, Erich on birth   

"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own."

Ridler, Anne on birth   

"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on birth   

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"When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools."

Shakespeare, William on birth   

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home."

Wordsworth, William on birth   

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on decisions
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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on existence
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on fascism
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"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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"I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on responsibility   

"Words are loaded pistols."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on words
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"While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on desire   

"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on abundance
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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging
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"The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on decisions
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"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on destiny
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"Doubt can only be removed by action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eccentricity
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"Mastery passes often for egotism."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on egotism
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"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on enemies
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"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eternity
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"Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on excellence   

"Sowing is not as difficult as reaping."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on farming and farmers   

"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on faults
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"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fear
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on feelings
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"Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on flattery
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"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on flaws
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"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on freedom
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"Only law can give us freedom."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on freedom
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"The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on genius
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"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on genius
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"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on habit   

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hatred
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