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"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."
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"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."
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"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
Man
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
Love
"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
Being
"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."
Work
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
Sleep
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
Man
"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
Family
"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist."
Dream
"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper."
Thought
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