I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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