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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

The discourse of truth is not a universal discourse, but a discourse that is produced within a certain regime of power.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The Perfect Man has no self; the Spiritual Man has no merit; the Sage has no fame.