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“Nature does not hurry yet it accomplishes everything.”

“The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing.”

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

“All idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary.”

“My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.”

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

“Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….
I doubt that such pain makes us ‘better’; but I know that it makes us more profound.”

“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”

“You don't think, you are being thought by thought.”

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”

“There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.”

“As the thing more perfect is, the more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”