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- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
- A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
- The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
- Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
- The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
- There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.