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

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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

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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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

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

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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

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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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