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"Win them with your infectious optimism and burning smile."

"Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world."

"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."

"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."
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"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe."

"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable."

"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"

"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."

"One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party."

"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it."

"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."

"All right then, I'll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there's a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart."
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