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"But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"
"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."
"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"
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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
"Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care."
"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."
"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."
"Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want."
"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."
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