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"There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Government

"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
Love

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
Lie

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Habit

"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
Man

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
Friendship

"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
Nature

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering."
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"People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox."
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Personal Development

"The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear someone say that all the people that belong to a certain country, race, or religion are bad - is extremely untruthful and makes the person making the statement lose credibility right away. We are all flawed and even nature is flawed. Nobody is perfect, and no country, race or religion is perfect. Duality and polarity are imprinted in everything in nature - in all humans, and even within ourselves. For example, there are those who are ignorant, and those who are wise."
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Personal Development

"Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?"
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Personal Development

"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."
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Personal Development

"There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine."
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Personal Development

"The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality."
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"A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy."
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"There is always a demon inside every angel. And there is an angel inside every demon. All they need is a bit of darkness and light together to see each other's face."
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Personal Development

"You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.Unto the world in grossly loving zest,With clinging tendrils, one adheres;The other rises forcibly in questOf rarefied ancestral spheres.If there be spirits in the airThat hold their sway between the earth and sky,Descend out of the golden vapors thereAnd sweep me into iridescent life.Oh, came a magic cloak into my handsTo carry me to distant lands,I should not trade it for the choicest gown,Nor for the cloak and garments of the crown."
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