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✵ 1. január 1950
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James Richardson citáty a výroky

„Šťastie je ochota byť šťastným.“

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James Richardson: Citáty v angličtine

“Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.”

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#52
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.”

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#171
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence … to productivity. And they’re happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.”

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#150
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“I don’t know what’s meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.”

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#165
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“The single sin is less of a problem than the good reasons for it.”

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#84
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does.”

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#41
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“I’m sitting here bored, … trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.”

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#489
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“Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren’t hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.”

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#355
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“To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.”

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#196
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“The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn’t.”

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#427
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“I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing.”

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#165
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“Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we’d prefer a different drink.”

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Aphorism #2
Interglacial (2004)

“Path: where nothing grows.”

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Aphorism #19
Interglacial (2004)

“I’m surprised that multiple personalities are so much less common in reality than in fiction: what a little disorder it would take, a distraction, a sleep, for one of our minor characters to imagine he was the star, to speak out for everyone else. And that’s what it would be, a change of billing, not of authorship. For you do not write your play—you are just the character in it called The Playwright. The real writer, you never meet.”

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#139
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“Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.”

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#54
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“What’s thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn’t known was there.”

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#454
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“Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.”

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#441
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“It is clear, we say, as if to see through something were to know it.”

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#181
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“What I’m not changes more than what I am.”

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#91
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“Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?”

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#25
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“Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.”

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#57
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“The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.”

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#195
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“A strange gratitude for those I disagree with. They keep me from having to take too seriously the moments when I disagree with myself.”

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#185
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“Birds of prey don’t sing.”

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Aphorism #7
Interglacial (2004)