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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

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Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

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And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

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Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

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