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

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

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

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

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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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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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