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- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around…
- When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for…
- It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would…
- You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
- Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and…
- There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my…
- Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose,…
- I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the…
- Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready…
- Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts…
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