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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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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

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To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

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she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

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Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

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Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

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but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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