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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.

The Book of Disquiet
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding
Everything is self-evident
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean
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