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"Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long."
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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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"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society
"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Poetry
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Poetry
"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
Art
"To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing."
Man
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
People
"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
Life
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