"There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open."
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"But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits."
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"Understanding is the beginning of approving."
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"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced."
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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
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"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."
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"Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life."
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"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress."
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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
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"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."
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"One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing."
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"True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others."
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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
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"Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice."
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"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom."
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"Often the best in us springs from the worst in us."
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"When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools."
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"The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it."
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"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable."
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"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
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