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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others than in showing a great deal yourself.

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

A modest garden . . . contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

What about the creative state? In it a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

One should stick by one’s own soul, and by nothing else. In one’s soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one’s own soul-knowledge, one is the worst of traitors.