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"Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest."
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"Superstition is the poetry of life."
Life
"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
People
"As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant."
Expression
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
Man
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."
Motivation
"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
Age
"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."
Life
"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher."
Learning
"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life."
Life
"Few people have the imagination for reality."
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"It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst."
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Personal Development
"The struggle is never easy to finding what is lost and to gain the best of what is to come without sweat."
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Personal Development
"The DFA and organizations like it have pushed and squeezed and elbowed out all the feeling in the world. They have clamped their fists around a geyser to keep it from exploding.But the pressure eventually builds, and the explosion will always come."
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Personal Development
"I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me."
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Personal Development
"I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways."
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Personal Development
"But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child."
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Personal Development
"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
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Personal Development
"You," Seven pronounced, "are a train wreck of sexual history."But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving."
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Personal Development
"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication. For change, stimulus. That petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"
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Personal Development
"I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee."
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