"I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone."
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"Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!"
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"The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man."
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"Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness"
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"It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one."
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"The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions."
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"To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it."
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"Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else."
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"I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices."
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"A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other."
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"Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it."
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"The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love."
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"Long only for what you have."
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"Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger."
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"There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection."
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"He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others."
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"Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination."
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"The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many."
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"Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit."
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"Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible."
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