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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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