My today and each of my yesterdays, my rises and falls, are so diverse that I sometimes feel as if I had lived not one, but several existences, each one different from the others.

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For tradition also and always means inhibition.

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For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an electric current, that anyone that identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom.

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Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

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Happiness would prevail where trees were planted.

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Soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

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And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him.

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It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

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For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.

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There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

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