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Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

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The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

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Life did not stop, and one had to live.

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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

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I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

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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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It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

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No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

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There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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