Little

A person knows little of little-known persons.

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It started

It started as stated.

It is hard

It is hard to believe that the world works on your behalf; it is hard to accept that it doesn't.

I need to improve

I need to improve my ability to improve.

Be

Be sincere, not earnest.

One is

One is always almost and almost always.

We are

We are hint-engines.

For one

I, for one, must defy the indefinitely definite.

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Seeks

The one who needs more seeks most.

I know

I know that I knew that I would know.

By which we sense

Thought is a sense by which we sense the sense of the senses.

Examine the stories

We need all of us, whatever our background, to constantly examine the stories inside which and with which we live. We all live in stories, so called grand narratives. Nation is a story. Family is a story. Religion is a story. Community is a story. We all live within and with these narratives. And it seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories. That you constantly argue about the stories. In fact the arguing never stops. The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. And through that argument you change your mind sometimes. And that's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison. Somebody else controls the story.

Salman Rushdie

One is not obliged

One is not obliged to play by the rules with one who has refused to play by the rules.

Reason

Reason incriminates itself in reasoning unreasonably.

Inadequate

My strategies were inadequate to the persistence of the provocations.

Without poetry

Better by far to have poetry without a poem than a poem—a million poems!—without poetry.

How would I be different

How would I be different if I had never felt a thing?

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