"First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along."
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"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big."
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"The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off."
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"The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value."
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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate."
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"People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom."
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"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others."
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"There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy."
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"I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato."
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"Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life."
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"Everybody's friend is nobody's."
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"The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad."
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"Time is that in which all things pass away."
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"What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others."
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"Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within."
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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."
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"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
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"I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous."
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