Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

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Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.

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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

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Your soul is the whole world.

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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

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In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.

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Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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