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• I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

  Albert Camus

  Beach, Doors, Silence

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.59, Vintage

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• It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

  Alan Moore

  Ideas, Brilliant, Muse

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• There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Men, Vision

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• I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Giving, Fuel, Energy

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• British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

  Craig Charles

  Fans, Three, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

  Robert Powell

  Hard Work, Thinking, Littles

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• There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, East Germany, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Because you will meet somebody more exceptional than anyone you have ever know. Who will love you warmly as possible. And who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.

  Alexandra Potter

  Love You, Feels, Knows

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• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Angel

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• Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Lying, Reflection

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Knowing, Childhood, Forever

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• Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Strong, Stress

  1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.7.

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• I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Lucky, Actors, Juilliard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

  Tim Holden

  College, Medicine, Research

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• Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Fate

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• I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon as “exceptional” begins to mean anything to anyone they’ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. “Exceptional” refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I’ve been exceptional.

  Daniel Keyes

  Mean, Expression, Ideas

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of Shakespeare — which is perhaps, for both, the fact of not existing. Every art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, every work is the implementation of this original fault, from which come to us a new light and a risky conception of plenitude.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Art, Mistake, Light

  "The Book to Come".

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• Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

  Remy de Gourmont

  Mean, Lust, Different

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• In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Humanity, States

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• One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, People, Designer

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• I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

  Thornton Wilder

  Unhappy Childhood, Atheism, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us write because we can make a modest living, or even supplement our day jobs, doing something about which we feel passionately. Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least we're doing something that we genuinely love. There's no other reason to work this hard, except that love.

  Melissa Scott

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  Melissa Scott (1997). “Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel”, Heinemann Drama

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• Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Basketball, Business, Men

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• Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
  to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

  John McCain

  Leadership, Honesty, Integrity

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