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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
The Architecture of Happiness
Others, like him, even before I was born, had exhausted all the problems in order to allow us to feel just minor aches.
Dora Bruder
I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.
The Bell Jar
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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