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More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Caesar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble? I consider that to murder a brother, a mother, a wife, is a thing worthy of some petty Asiatic king, not a Roman Caesar; but if that position were mine, I should not write justifying letters to the Senate. But Nero writes. Nero i..
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It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day
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Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.
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There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.
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It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It
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Truly times must be out of joint, when only asses have any power of action left, and those who have a little more intelligence use it to doubt everything, and to persuade themselves that it is not worth while to attempt anything.
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There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.
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Dla Boga, panie Wolodyjowski! Larum graja! wojna! nieprzyjaciel w granicach! a ty sie nie zrywasz? szabli nie chwytasz? na kon nie siadasz? Co sie stalo z toba, zolnierzu? Zalis swej dawnej przepomnial cnoty, ze nas samych w zalu jeno i trwodze zostawiasz?
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Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing.
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I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.
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She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy. She
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Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!
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He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In
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Hamlet is the human soul as it was, as it is, and as it will be. In conceiving this drama, Shakspeare overstepped the limit fixed even for genius. I can understand Homer and Dante, studied by the light of their epoch. I can comprehend that they could do what they did; but how an Englishman of the seventeenth century could foreknow psychosis, a science of recent growth, will be to me, in spite of my study of Hamlet, an everlasting mystery. H..
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the ears of the prince. His guardianship over
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Besides, my old opinions--at least, the greater part of them--are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But
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own single law; Hei! be amazed, grow not enraged! thou in thy
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Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.
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ground the coursing of flocks run wild.
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Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I
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There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss"
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hatred is degenerated love,
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without noise of drums or
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As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father.
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quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin
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Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be.
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A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully--through tears. 6
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Roma se tapa los oidos cuando te oye; y el mundo se rie de ti.
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It appears to me that many cultured people are attacked by the same disease. Criticism of ourselves and everything else is corroding our active power; we have no stable basis, no point of issue, no faith in life.
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first wrong.
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I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it.
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I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down.
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Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When
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If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,--less than nothing, because an object of aversion.
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mandassero con lei il suo seguito, il
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A potem, wyciagnawszy swoj rozowy paluszek, dotknela nim bialej jedwabnej jaki Zbyszkowej i cofajac go natychmiast zapytala: -- A jutro tez bedzie moj?
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Gdybym istotnie przy tej jalowiznie, przy tej niemocy czynu, posiadal nawet genialne zdolnosci, to bylbym jakims szczegolnym rodzajem geniusza bez teki.
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Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.
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Not Nero, but God, rules the world.
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Aniela died this morning.
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