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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
And love, above all when it struggles against destiny, overwhelms us with the feeling of the vanity of this world of appearances and gives us a glimpse of another world, in which destiny is overcome and liberty is law.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
But the capacity to enjoy is impossible without the capacity to suffer; and the faculty of enjoyment is one with that of pain. Whosoever does not suffer does not enjoy, just as whosoever is insensible to cold is insensible to heat.
Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes away, for in some way or another everything is perpetuated; and everything, after passing through time, returns to eternity.
Little can be hoped for from a ruler, who has not at some time or other been preoccupied, even if only confusedly, with the first beginning and ultimate end of all things, and above all of man, with the why of his origin and the wherefore of his destiny.
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
The very same reason which one man may regard as a motive for taking care to prolong his life may be regarded by another man as a motive for shooting himself.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
I am the center of my universe, the center of the universe, and in my supreme anguish I cry with Michelet, Mon moi, ils m'arrachent mon moi! What is a man profited if he shall gain the world and lose his own soul?