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

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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

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

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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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