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“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he ...”
“Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the internal integrity and equilibrium of my mind; that will be in which the manor in which I recover the p...”
“While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.”