Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

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