There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
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Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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