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No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
We are what we believe we are!
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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