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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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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

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

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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