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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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