The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
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