When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSome men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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