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  • Nothing is slower than the actual birth of human.

  • Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

  • Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

  • The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.



  • “He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.







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