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"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
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"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."
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"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
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"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
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