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" But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. "

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" True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. "

" Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. "

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" He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. "