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The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned.

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

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But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think id…

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Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

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Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

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Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

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