Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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We have more poets that judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
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