Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
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