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A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.
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Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
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Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.
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Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
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I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.
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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.
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People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
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I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.
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We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.
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