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I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a

I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. – Quentin Crisp

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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right. – Quentin Crisp

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

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Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do. – Bhagavad Gita

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Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. Its easy to say no, even if it means dying. – Jean Anouilh

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