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"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
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"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."
Fame
"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."
Abuse
"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."
People
"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."
Thought
"Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way."
Talk
"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
Gold
"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
Talent
"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."
Society
"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
Habit
"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."
Actor
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