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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 31st, 1915

Died: December 10th, 1968

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