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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering."

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."

"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."
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