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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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Motives are causes experienced from within.

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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

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We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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Everybody's friend is nobody's.

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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

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Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

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Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.

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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

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