Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.Natalie Clifford Barney
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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