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“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.”

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”

“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”

“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

“Unless I am myself, I am nobody.”

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

“It is very easy to follow your parents,
it is very easy to follow your teachers,
it is very easy to follow the society,
it is very easy to be obedient --

to be rebellious, to be on your own, is very difficult.

But growth comes the hard way.”

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”