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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
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Live it up so you can write it down.
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.