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«Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.»
«Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.»
«If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.»
«It is important not to have the unrealistic expectation that we will find a magic key to help get rid of all suffering. It takes determination, patience, and more than one week.»
«I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.»
«If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.»
«In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.»
«Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.»
«Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.»
«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»

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