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I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
Tropic of Capricorn
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
Everything hinges on how you look at things.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Tropic of Cancer
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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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