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To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions, to deposit the mud of life, to calm the fever of the soul
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
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Man is only what he becomes--profound truth; but he becomes only what he is, truth still more profound.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Nothing is more hidden from us than the illusion which lives with us day by day, and our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
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To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life.