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"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
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"You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose."
"Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:The horror! The horror!"
"There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget."
"All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it."
"Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets."
"I let him run on, this papier-mâché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried, I could poke my forefinger through him and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe."
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