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It's good to walk in the morning, with senses rejuvenated and spirit cleansed by the night's long healing draught of Lethe. You look forward to the day, yet hesitate to begin it, being master as you are of this little untroubled span of time between. You indulge in the illusion that your life is steady, simple, concentrated, and contemplative, that you belong entirely to yourself—and this illusion makes you happy.
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"Children are a human species and a society apart, a nation of their own, so to speak. On the basis of their common form of life, they find each other out with the greatest ease, no matter how different their small vocabularies. Ours soon played with natives and foreigners alike."
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"He whose preoccupation is with excellence longs fervently to find rest in perfection; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?"
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