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

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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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

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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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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.

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