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We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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... in qualsiasi attività nobile o denigrata c'è sempre spazio per una folgorazione di onnipotenza. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

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Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance the gap will never be filled. ↗

— Albert Camus

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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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One finds nobility in the oddest places. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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Virtue is the truest nobility. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ↗

— Rebecca West

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. ↗

— Elijah Wood

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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives. ↗

— John Lasseter

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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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