To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

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

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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