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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"When your emotions are in motion, take a break and ponder!"

"The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you."

"If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment."

"The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music."

"Family: a foundation! Family: a 'cloth' keeps the 'body'!"

"The greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom."

"No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!"

"Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."

"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."
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