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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.


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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.



All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.



Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.



A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.



When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.



There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.



Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.



Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.



Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.



There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.





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Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.



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