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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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