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Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

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In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

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Happy people have no history.

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

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Act as if you are, and you will become such.

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Faith is the force of life.

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It is very difficult to tell the truth.

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Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

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Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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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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When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

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