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If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

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Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

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Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

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When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'

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It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

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Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

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Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

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I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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