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«For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.»
«If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.»
«It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.»
«If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.»
«Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error»
«Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.»
«It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.»
«For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication»
«It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.»
«If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary»

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