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You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age: 86 †
Born: 1830
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
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Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
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To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
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Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
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Accident is veiled necessity.
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Runners are poor walkers.
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Even virtue is an art and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
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Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.
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Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
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Unattainable wishes are often pious. This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
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He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
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As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
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I regret nothing, says arrogance I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
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Believe flatterers and you're lost believe your enemies and you despair.
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