Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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