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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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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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A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

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

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Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

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The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

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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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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

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Music is love in search of a voice.

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

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And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

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Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

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Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

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In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.

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