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"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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Personal Development
"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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Personal Development
"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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Personal Development
"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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Personal Development
"Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are-how impossible to reach."
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Personal Development
"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that, and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."
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Personal Development
"My date the next night brought a sock puppet with him. A. Sock. Puppet. And he talked to me with it'... 'It completely freaked me out,' Kalani continued. 'I made it through drinks and that was more than enough. I told the guy it was a good thing he had one good hand left because if this was his usual MO for dates, he was going to need it."
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Personal Development
"The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them."
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Personal Development
"No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed."
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"So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced."
Travel
"There was a thing called Heaven, but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
Religion
"Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche."
Despair
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
Travel
"Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness."
Happiness
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
Dogs
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
Age
"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
Work
"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure."
Time
"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie."
Truth
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