The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

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Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

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Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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