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"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
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"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."

"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
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