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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

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What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

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What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

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