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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

— Ingrid Bergman

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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

What is happiness? It depends on two assets, which fortunately I have. They are good health and a short memory.

The Real and the Unreal (1961)

It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

With Humphrey Bogart in 1942's Casablanca.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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