"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."
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"Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time."
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"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."
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"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace."
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"In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility."
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"It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose."
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"All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire."
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"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine."
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"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."
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"Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury."
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"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."
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"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."
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"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
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"We can never cease to be ourselves."
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"The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness."
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"The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas."
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"The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free."
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"We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully."
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