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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

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Money is a kind of poetry.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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