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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
I am who I am and that's who I am
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.