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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
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