People's fates are simplified by their names.

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

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People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

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