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"Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If only I can keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."
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"Do you ever feel like you have been stopped dead in your tracks? That you have fallen and can't get up? Or like you are stuck in a rut or wading in muck? Paralysis, inertia, and being stuck, can be disempowering and disabling. What is it going to take for you to restart your engines and get moving again?"
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"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."
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"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."
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"Do not give up. Be strong!"
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"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."
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"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."
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"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."
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"It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it."
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"If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
Man

"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."
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"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
Change

"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
Death

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
Life

"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
Heart

"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."
Society

"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
Music

"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."
Age
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