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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

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Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of bei...more

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

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To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile ...more

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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then ...more

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The final reward of the dead - to die no more

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Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.