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Dare to be yourself.

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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Dare to be yourself.

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