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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Will,

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."

"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
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