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" All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. "

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" The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. "

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" The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. "

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" Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "

" As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. "

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" The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. "

" Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. "

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" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

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