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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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Loneliness,

Author:

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Loneliness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. India saw from the beginning and even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance she never lost hold of the insight that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
  • 2. I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
  • 3. I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife at the age of 35 you could name two girlfriends.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.
  • 2. Let me tell you Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world but he's so smart so articulate such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.
  • 3. I've performed in Auburn Hills at The Palace so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit but I've been able to be here and I can really see what the city was. Like I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

3 Anger

  • 1. All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
  • 2. When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
  • 3. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
  • 2. And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
  • 3. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
  • 2. Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
  • 3. Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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