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| I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself | | Uncategorized | |
| I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. | | Uncategorized | |
| I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own | | Judgement; Self-reliance | |
| I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict | | Uncategorized | |
| I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. | | Company | |
| I quote others only in order the better to express myself. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older | | Truth | |
| I value little my own opinions but I value just as little those of others | | Uncategorized | |
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| I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden | | Death and dying | |
| I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind--and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. | | Uncategorized | |
| If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. | | Uncategorized | |
| If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. | | Uncategorized | |
| If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: `Because it was he, because it was I'. | | Uncategorized | |
| If the world complains that I speak too much about myself, I complain that the world does not so much as think of itself at all | | Uncategorized | |
| If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. | | Death and dying; Nature | |
| If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. | | Uncategorized | |
