With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind that is, he seeks other men, and the otherest.
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