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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautif...more

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The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

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The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful s...more

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

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If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same...more

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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

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Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar we...more

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Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny ...more

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Life as it is called is for most of us one long postponement.

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That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

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If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you...more

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Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.