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Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.

We kill time; time buries us.

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.

Tears are not arguments.

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.

Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.

Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

He sucked the chicken wing philosophically.

,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

In hoc signo vinces