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There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

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The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

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Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

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But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

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Energy is based on love.

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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

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… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

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I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

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There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

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He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

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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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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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