"Life is but a preparation for what there is to come."
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"I am the Spirit that denies."
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"He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it."
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"From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire."
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"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."
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"He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion."
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"Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building."
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"Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best."
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"Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark."
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"So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed."
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"Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages."
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"Do thine own task, and be therewith content."
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"Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation."
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"Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there."
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"It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine."
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"An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor."
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"America, you have it better than our continent, the old one."
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"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths."
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"The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating."
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"The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it."
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