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That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

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Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

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You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

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If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

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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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Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

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The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

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I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

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Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

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Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

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The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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