"People had a habit of looking at..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.
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“For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.”
“Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”
“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”
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“Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.”
“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”
“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”