The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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