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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters: to be able to dare!

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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.


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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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To live without hope is to cease to live.

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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.