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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

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Where there is love, there is God also.

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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

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If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

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I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

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As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

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The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

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Everything I know, I know because of love.

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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

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It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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