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"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do."
Art

"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."
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"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
Being

"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."
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"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."
History

"God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?"
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