He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
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At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.