"True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful."
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"The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy."
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"Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed."
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"And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence."
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"We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert"
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"Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action."
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"If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed."
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"The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!"
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"There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them"
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"Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations."
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"I laugh at my heart, and do its will"
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"He who can not learn to love must flatter."
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"Dauer in Wechsel. Duration in change."
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"If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home."
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"The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values."
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"Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp."
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"This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest."
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"The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental."
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"What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves."
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"Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something."
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