A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

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I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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

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

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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

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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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