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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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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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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
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Age Education Learning Time Wisdom
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Beautiful Different Love Person Poetry Touch
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Appreciation Fruit Learning Ourselves Time Tree
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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