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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."
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"The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other."
"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
"To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality."
"Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit."
"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
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"The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose."
"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
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