The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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