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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

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I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Change

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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul

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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

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When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

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