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“Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.”

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Book:What Price Fame?

Source: What Price Fame?

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

Source: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950

“If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.”

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Book:Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be

Source: Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be