In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

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