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"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

"Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough."

"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."

"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."

"The reality about life is that challenges are inevitable."
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"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."


"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."


"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
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