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“Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.”

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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself…

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“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”

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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

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“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed…

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