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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
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"Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bottle. We'll always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual consent, and I'll take good and benevolent care of you. All I ask in return is your soul. Small item. We can even ignore the fact that you've handed it over, the way we ignore the dog collar."
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
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