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Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

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You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman

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Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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