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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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Personal Development

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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Personal Development

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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Personal Development

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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Personal Development

"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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Personal Development

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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Personal Development

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"Inspiration comes of working every day."
Inspirational

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

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
Literature

"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."
Religion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
Art

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society

"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Love

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
Dream

"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
Love

"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."
Religion
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