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"Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself."
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"Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear."
"Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself."
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"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."
"Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,Assumes control of fate's immortal loom."
"As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work."
"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"
"Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long."
"Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity."
"Once someone asked, when I was present, what constituted the greatest pleasure in love. Someone replied, naturally: in receiving. Another: in giving. Someone said: the pleasure of pride! someone else: the ecstasy of humility! All these muckers making like the Imitation of Christ. Finally, an impudent utopian was found who insisted that the greatest pleasure of love was in forming new citizens for the fatherland. Me, I said: what is uniquely, supremely voluptuous about love lies in the certainty of doing evil."
"How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less."
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
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