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The connections of isolated phenomena can very rarely be discerned. As a rule, several causes at once produce one effect.

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 The connections of isolated phenomena can very rarely be discerned. As a rule, several causes at once produce one effect.

Mar 22,2024

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A man who has lost all hope of rooting out of himself a certain radical defect of character, or even of hiding the flaw

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 A man who has lost all hope of rooting out of himself a certain radical defect of character, or even of hiding the flaw

Feb 27,2024

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What we call imagination, which we value so highly in great poets — is, essentially, unbridled, loose, or if you will,

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 What we call imagination, which we value so highly in great poets — is, essentially, unbridled, loose, or if you will,

Feb 06,2024

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For some reason men have imagined that love for oneself is more natural and comprehensible than love for another. Why? Love

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 For some reason men have imagined that love for oneself is more natural and comprehensible than love for another. Why? Love

Jan 25,2024

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Genius, in spite of vulgar conception, is a condition of chaos and unutterable restlessness. Not for nothing has genius

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 Genius, in spite of vulgar conception, is a condition of chaos and unutterable restlessness. Not for nothing has genius

Feb 13,2023

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Like our ancestors, we stand still with fright and perplexity before ugliness, disease, misery, senility, death. All that

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 Like our ancestors, we stand still with fright and perplexity before ugliness, disease, misery, senility, death. All that

Dec 19,2022

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Even men of genius cannot keep up the creative activity to the last. As soon as they have acquired their technique, they

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 Even men of genius cannot keep up the creative activity to the last. As soon as they have acquired their technique, they

Nov 22,2022

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Shy people usually receive their impressions post-dated. During those moments when an event is taking place before their eyes,...

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 Shy people usually receive their impressions post-dated. During those moments when an event is taking place before their eyes,...

Nov 06,2022

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Men do not like to admit themselves wrong. It is absurd, but it is so. Men, trivial, wretched creatures, proved by history

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 Men do not like to admit themselves wrong. It is absurd, but it is so. Men, trivial, wretched creatures, proved by history

Feb 22,2022

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Man is such a conservative creature that any change, even a change for the better, scares him, he prefers the bad old way to

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 Man is such a conservative creature that any change, even a change for the better, scares him, he prefers the bad old way to

Jan 17,2022

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In order that the picture of life should not prove too depressing, the writer must provide himself in due season with

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 In order that the picture of life should not prove too depressing, the writer must provide himself in due season with

Dec 23,2021

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Genius is a wretched, blind maniac, whose eccentricities are condoned because of what is got from him.

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 Genius is a wretched, blind maniac, whose eccentricities are condoned because of what is got from him.

Nov 30,2021

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Genius must submit to cultivate an ass within itself — the condition being so humiliating that man will seldom take up the

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 Genius must submit to cultivate an ass within itself — the condition being so humiliating that man will seldom take up the

Nov 21,2021

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