To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
After Rilke's Letters
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. 
I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever a... 
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. 
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... 
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... 
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. 
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... 
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. 
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... 
There is no one right way. 
Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-t... 
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... 
And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. 
The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before... 
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. 
Finance people should remember Albert Einstein’s wise words: “Not everything that counts can be ... 
If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. 
Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and ... 
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe. 
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign. 
The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits. 
Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister. 
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important el... 
Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life 
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Eve... 
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into... 
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, ... 
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet,... 
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ... 
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ... 
I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be i... 
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &... 
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come... 
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ... 
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflatio... 
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York ... 
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the prov... 
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c... 
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr... 
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i... 
And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering p... 
Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the... 
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another... 
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole wor... 
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the... 
But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making... 
The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel. 
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. 
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves. 