"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
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"Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all."
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"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."
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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
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"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
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"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
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"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
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"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
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"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
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"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."
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"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
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"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
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