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I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that…

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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by…
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume…
To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the…
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has…
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite…
The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.
A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism…
Books are not life, only its ashes.
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is…

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I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the… — Marguerite Yourcenar
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Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many… — Charles Spurgeon
A merry heart is good like a medicine. — Joel Osteen
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