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"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."

"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."

"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
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