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"I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live."
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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

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"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."

"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."

"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."

"God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."

"It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence."

"For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again."

"So it came to this, that- against the grain, no doubt-the condemned man had to hope the apparatus was in good working order! This, I thought, was a flaw in the system; and, on the face of it, my view was sound enough. On the other hand, I had to admit it proved the efficiency of the system. It came to this; the man under sentence was obliged to collaborate mentally, it was in his interest that all should go off without a hitch."

"Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels."

"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."
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