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“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.”
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
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“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title”
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
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“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
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“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”
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“Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.”
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“Language is wine upon the lips”
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“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”
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“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
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