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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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