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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardene...more

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

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To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good...more

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The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is imp...more

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All movements go too far.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to r...more

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are o...more

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What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbe...more

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I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done...more

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Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.