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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is a...more

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed...more

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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

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To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the d...more

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For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought

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Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easie...more

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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Chri...more

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolish...more

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What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which yo...more

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My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere that I love you. Oh! Does it weary yo...more

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Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only means something through the interpretation love gi...more

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I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it is a contradiction that h...more

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.