Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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

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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

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