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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. – Terry Pratchett

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Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. – Norman Mailer

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Sometimes I have to stand on my head to see things as they are, when the world seems so upside-down that this is the only position in which anything makes sense. – Author unknown

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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. – Alexander Pope

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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. – George Eliot, Felix Holt, The Radical

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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. – Victor Hugo

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