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• Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
• If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a…
• A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a…
• Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
• Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
• It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.
• When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
• The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them…
• We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
• The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in…
• A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into…
• A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

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