"Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself."
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"The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task."
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"It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars."
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"I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation"
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"The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself."
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"Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation."
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"The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”"
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"Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools."
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"When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age."
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"Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it."
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"Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence."
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"What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer."
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"If life were organized, there would be no need for art."
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"Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals."
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"Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods."
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"Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them."
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"If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so."
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"It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life."
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"The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action."
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"Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship."
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