I am I plus my circumstances.

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To live is to feel oneself lost.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

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Law is born from despair of human nature.

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We cannot put off living until we are ready.

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

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