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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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A hedge between keeps friendship green.

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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

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In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

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Money is human happiness in the abstract.

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The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

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It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

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