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• The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think…
• Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
• He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
• The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
• Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often…
• Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
• When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.
• A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
• Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the…
• The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
• It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward…
• Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

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