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But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be.

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We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

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Experience has two things to teach; the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much.

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Don't seek symbology in all you see.

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Men cultivate 5000 roses in the same garden... and they never find what they're looking for... and yet what they're looking for can only be found in a single rose or in some water. But the eyes are blind. You must search with the heart!

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The common hillflowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty, becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to...Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth.

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Thousands plague the ramifications of evil, but only one hits the root.

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I eliminated various people from my life...
People I thought were essential for me, people made of thousands of promises and not one act. And more time goes by and more I realize that I only took the best decision.

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To find everything profound, that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.