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Small: Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, its at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have ano
Audrey Hepburn
"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
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Small: Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helpe
Audrey Hepburn
"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
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Small: People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed never throw out
Audrey Hepburn
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
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Small: Paris is always a good idea
Audrey Hepburn
"Paris is always a good idea"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
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Small: Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking
Audrey Hepburn
"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
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Small: Lets face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people it does for me
Audrey Hepburn
"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
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Small: Its that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by
Audrey Hepburn
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
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Small: If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses
Audrey Hepburn
"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
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Small: To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects
"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life
"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it
"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balan
"Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature
"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: To be happy is only to have freed ones soul from the unrest of unhappiness
"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors
"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past
"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: We possess only the happiness we are able to understand
"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete
"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, d
"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an e
"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own
"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. Theyve lived here long enough
"My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough"
Hugo Claus, Novelist
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Small: In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women
"In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women"
Hugo Claus, Novelist
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Small: Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it
"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of bore
"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself forgetting that I exist, I realize
"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life never before has a generation, dr
"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a mans life than in all the philosophies
"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrend
"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without und
"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fratern
"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
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Small: When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough
"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: No great inner event befalls those who summon it not
"No great inner event befalls those who summon it not"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be gover
"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words
"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the swe
"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with th
"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let o
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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Small: Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
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