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I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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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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When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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Spring is the time of plans and projects.

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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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Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

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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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The most important time is Now

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You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

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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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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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Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

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

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