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"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate."
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"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
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"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
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"I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil."
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"Evil is whatever distracts."
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"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"
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"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"Afternoon classes - that evil invention!"
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"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
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"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you."
Man
"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."
Poetry
"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"
Life
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."
Poetry
"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."
Fate
"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."
Age
"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."
Life
"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."
Work
"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."
Being
"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"
Life
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