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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.



If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.



Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.



There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.



The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.



It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.



The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.



Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.



Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.



Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.



My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.



Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.



If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.



There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow



Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.








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