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Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down read more
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always read more
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
