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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

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We obtain things when we no longer want them.

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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.

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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.

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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

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Are you or aren’t you convinced that weakness is a man’s condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven’t fallen first?

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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

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