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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Existence Judgement Mortal Ourselves Person Suitable
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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Feeling Heart Heart Broken Marvelous Myself Thinking
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Curiosity Marriage Myself Observation People
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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