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"Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother."
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Berthold AuerbachWe make nothing: we only form and discover what is already there, but — Berthold Auerbach
"We make nothing: we only form and discover what is already there, but which without our assistance cannot release itself from shapeless chaos."
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Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbach
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Berthold Auerbach was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.
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"Books make men alone for themselves."
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"Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone."
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"Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound?"
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"It lies in our own power to attune the mind to cheerfulness."
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"The vain being is the really solitary being."
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