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"A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience."
"Don't mix wine and women."
"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference."
"A corpse is what's left after waking too often."
"A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself."
"To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it."
"It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point."
"A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end."
"You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering ."
"Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will."
"We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong."
"The real affliction of old age is remorse."
"We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites."
"Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning."
"I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship."
"The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities."
"We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word."
"When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of."
"Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd."
"Not believing in anything is also a religion ."