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/ page 425 of 1205 /Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its siken wings.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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And yet not turn your back upon the world.
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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Death is the only grammatically correct full stop…
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It's the light of the oncoming train.
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The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
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To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.
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At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.
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The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.
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