We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.Maurice Maeterlinck
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man
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