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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Theodor W. Adorno

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie…A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Catherine the Great

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.