Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

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  Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

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  There is no shame in being happy.

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  Many people complain that their whole life goes by in searching for the meaning of life, which, if it exists at all, lies nowhere else but in the search itself.

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  The more you think about life, the more its ambushes open up and its pathless wastes appear.

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  All philosophy is sad. If you talk about happiness for long, you will end up feeling a little unhappy.

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  What moves man is the striving to exist; but when his existence is assured, he knows not what to do with it.

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