The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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