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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.