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“Nothing lasts but nothing is lost. ”

“When your absolutely only choice is between an untruth and rudeness, then choose rudeness; if, however, your choice is between an untruth and cruelty, then choose untruth.”

“Chance is necessity hidden behind a veil.”

“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”

“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”

“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”

“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”

“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.”

“Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”

“Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

“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.”

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

“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 surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”