Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

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Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.

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Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

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Man is what he believes.

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