The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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