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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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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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Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

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He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

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Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

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Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

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Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

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But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

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