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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.
The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.
We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.
Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.
A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.
You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.
If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!
Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.
The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.
All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.
Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.
Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.
Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.
The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.
Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
To die of yearning for something you will never experience
It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.