Quote #75

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

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  1. I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
  2. I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
  3. There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
  4. To act is to rest.
  5. I never meant to be but a dreamer.
  6. All problemas are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no …
  7. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster a…
  8. His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.

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