Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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