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«The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.»
«Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.»
«To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.»
«The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.»
«Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge»
«The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity»

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