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

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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

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

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

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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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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