"The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh."
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"Do not scorn little victories."
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"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."
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"True eloquence forgoes eloquence."
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"'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know."
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"It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's."
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"How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch."
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"The world will be saved by one or two people."
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"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."
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"Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars."
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"Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us."
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"The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them."
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"An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way."
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"The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy."
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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
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"Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases."
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"In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself."
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"Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness."
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"If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become."
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"Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man."
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