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| Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world |
| Music |
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| Music is essentially useless, as is life |
| Music |
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| Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. |
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| My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. |
| Atheism; Humanity; Religion |
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| Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. |
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| Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape |
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| Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all. |
| Living |
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| Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. |
| Body; Soul |
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| Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure. |
| Adventure |
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| Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject |
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| Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. |
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| Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations |
| Elderly |
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| One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. |
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| Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. |
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| Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity |
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