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/ page 942 of 1205 /One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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