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In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, t...more

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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick an...more

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Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actio...more

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The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in l...more

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I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not kno...more

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and...more

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Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important pe...more