My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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