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“to live means to lack something at every moment”

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Paul Valéry was a French poet, philosopher, and literary critic. Born on October 30, 1871, and died on July 20, 1945. Valéry is known for his profound poetry and philosophical thoughts, being an important representative of Symbolist literature. more

“A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition”

Ifs Way Individual Consciousness Forever Groups Conditions Revolution Thousand Chosen Oppression One Way Rebellion Oppressed Oppressors Agitation

Author:Lorraine Hansberry

“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

Thinking Love Needs Lying Mother Order Love You Tired Extraordinary Genuine Faithful Small Things Being Faithful Calcutta Getting Tired Paraphrased

Author:Mother Teresa

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”

Ifs Kind Art Whole Stories Lasts Artist Kindness Survival Art Is Confession Anguish Vomiting

Author:James A. Baldwin

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