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For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things ...more

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Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to div...more

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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

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A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they nee...more

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Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find som...more

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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.