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

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

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

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

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