Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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I am who I am and that's who I am

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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

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Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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