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She knows what she sees. She has her eyes in the right place.
Johanna Spyri
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I shall be told, I know, that Mathematics render the attention peculiarly close (appliquee); but they do not habituate to collect, to appreciate, to concentrate; the attention they require is, so to speak, in a straight line; the human mind acts in mathematics as a spring tending in one uniform direction.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially
Erich von Däniken
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Our researches are perilous, our discoveries are lethal. For us physicists there is nothing left but to surrender to reality.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Work is motion, but our own. We have the fatal possibility to emulate another, for example a mill-wheel.
Ludwig Hohl
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Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives, at work or in government - we might experience a leap in prosperity. We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.
Rolf Dobelli
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The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.
Joël Dicker
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There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.
Max Frisch
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The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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In my sleep, which is the song of the tombs, I have just seen her again, as beautiful as in her youth.
Albert Cohen
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Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another's loneliness strange.
Robert Walser (writer)
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We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
Johann Martin Usteri
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Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
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