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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous
I confused things with their names: that is belief
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you
Acting is happy agony
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do
Hell is other people
Everything has been figured out, except how to live
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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