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«Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.»
«Neurotics build castles in the sky, and psychotics live in them, and people like me just pretend to live in them»
«People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.»
Author: Claude Monet | About: Art, Love, Understanding | Keywords: discuss, discusses, my art, pretend
«Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.»
«One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead»
«Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.»
«Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.»
«People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.»
«I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.»
«I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.»

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