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“To achieve the nonchalance, which is absolutely necessary for a man, one article at least must not match.”
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“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.”
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“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.”
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