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“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.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“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.”

“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”

“Any Idiot Can Face a Crisis; It’s This Day-To-Day Living That Wears You Out.”

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

“You don't meet the people you love, you recognise them.”

“If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.”

“If you play close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul.”

“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”

“We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”

“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

“That which you most need will be found where you least want to look.”

“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”