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"The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love."
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"God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless."
"Reality is what people who lack vision see."
"Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking."
"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
"You can't go home again — it’s not necessarily that places change, but that people do."
"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
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"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."
"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
"On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no more water drawn from it? Because it is full of skeletons."
"I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale is a gratuitous Elleviou.Summer, I salute thee!"
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